The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

So much of TV seems to be chewing gum for the eyes.... TV desperately needs more self-reliance and pride in the medium.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.