I WROTE a letter to the CIA on my MANUAL college TYPEWRITER. I mailed it to CIA with my resume. I didn't have an ADDRESS. So I just put, 'CIA. Washington, D.C.'

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O NATURE, Nature, why art thou so DISHONEST, as ever to send men with these FALSE recommendations into the World!

It does me GOOD to write a LETTER which is not a response to a DEMAND, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me LIKE the waters of a reservoir.

A LETTER does not BLUSH.

I tend to DISCOURAGE people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the REST of the population. Of COURSE, it can be useful if you're writing an OFFICIAL letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

I can WRITE with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a GIRL a love LETTER using just my toes.

Which is why we cannot SAY of the purloined LETTER that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a PARTICULAR place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it GOES.

Saving a letter from an OLD FRIEND doesn't EXIST anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

I've been WRESTLING with Kafka SINCE I was an adolescent. I think he's a GREAT aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short STORY writer, and a great NOVELIST - I'd put novelist last.

We cannot afford to have any LARGE SECTION of the business world in doubt WHETHER they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable SERVICE.

Early on, I WROTE a LETTER to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I FELT called, MOVED.

I have owed you this LETTER for a very LONG time-but my fingers have avoided the PENCIL as though it were an OLD and poisoned tool.

I do not PRETEND to WRITE MUCH of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

I always encourage people to LEARN the basics and NAIL the basics. Take the time to customize your RESUME and cover letter to reflect your QUALIFICATIONS, your research on the specific company and position, and how you believe you can add value.

In my own one-woman show, 'Feeling Good,' I talk about my CHILDHOOD and write a letter to my YOUNGER self in the show. The most important thing I would tell her is to trust my instincts. Just trust them. They're little whispers from God, I think. You've HEARD it a million times, but it's true: Listen to that inner VOICE.