Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.