In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

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.

In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, "galaxy" is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.