When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard."

(Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4)

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.