Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going read more

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the story's narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.

It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a read more

It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth,

According to our calculation, 30 percent is the maximum increase (if the economy is) to achieve 8.0 percent inflation and read more

According to our calculation, 30 percent is the maximum increase (if the economy is) to achieve 8.0 percent inflation and GDP (gross domestic product) growth of 5.4 percent.

His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a read more

His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a situation where other figures cannot contradict him.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers read more

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

What you have seen, O Americans, in New York and Washington and the losses you are having in Afghanistan and read more

What you have seen, O Americans, in New York and Washington and the losses you are having in Afghanistan and Iraq, in spite of the blackouts by your media, are only the losses of the initial clashes. ... You will soon experience horrors that will make you forget the horrors you have encountered in Vietnam.