Christopher Morley

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.