The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental illness should be cured by drilling holes in the skull, the better to let the demons out. ...This is the Orwellian fashion in which the medical establishment throws its weight around.
James J. KilpatrickIf you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.
James J. KilpatrickFind out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.
James J. KilpatrickWriters must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
James J. KilpatrickAstrology is the sheerest hokum. This pseudoscience has been around since the day of the Chaldeans and Babylonians. It is as phony as numerology, phrenology, palmistry, alchemy, the reading of tea leaves, and the practice of divination by the entrails of a goat. No serious person will buy the notion that our lives are influenced individually by the movement of distant planets. This is the sawdust blarney of the carnival midway.
James J. Kilpatrick