Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
Everything we know has its origin in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings. Then how is it possible that no more than one in one hundred students has ever been exposed to an extended and systematic study of the art and science of question-asking? How come Alan Bloom did not mention this, or E. D. Hirsh, Jr. , or so many others who have written books on how to improve our schools? Did they simply fail to notice that the principal intellectual instrument available to human beings is not examined in school?
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.
Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.
I love English girls! I adore all their different accents. Who knows, I could find a British girlfriend on my travels!
I've made several films that haven't been shown.