I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead
Style means the right word. The rest matters little.
A designer God cannot be used to explain organized complexity because any God capable of designing anything would have to be complex enough to demand the same kind of explanation in his own right.
A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility.
That doesn't necessarily mean that the story isn't true,. . . But what it does mean, then, is that at this moment we simply do not have enough evidence, in my view, for any conclusion to be reached - that the presidents have been lying to us for all these years and that what we've been told was just a pack of lies.