If you liked a book, don't meet the author

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

As honest as you could expect a man to be in a world where it's out of style.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.