Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.