So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your read more

So you've got your face coming forward and his head coming back and they meet. ... It's like slamming your face into a concrete block, if the concrete block was doing 40 miles an hour back at you.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led read more

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a read more

We sent Burns, trying to force them to make the play. They made a good baseball play. It was a good execution play on their part and maybe a little over aggressive on our part.

once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything read more

once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I have only just thought of it.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because read more

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Our sales growth in the first quarter was driven by strong order momentum across our product lines.

Our sales growth in the first quarter was driven by strong order momentum across our product lines.

Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling read more

Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling that? Who's running the damn place when you're using peacekeepers?

Beginning and average players are in great demand.

Beginning and average players are in great demand.