“Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally ...” — George Orwell Quote

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

It is over with; I am in the history books.

To suggest that immigration is the exclusive domain of the federal government, disallowing partnerships with local law enforcement, defies the will of Congress, not to mention reality. Numerous local jurisdictions have laws on the books dealing with immigration in a variety of ways.