Blessed are the mendacious, for they shall grow wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

What is freedom to a nation, but freedom to the individuals in it?

I try to stay calm and I try to enjoy myself as I perform these actions so I perform them with minimal stress on my body.

Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

The Bible does not thrill; the Bible nourishes. Give time to the reading of the Bible and the recreating effect is as real as that of fresh air physically.

It is true that at the time [1962] we had a strategic nuclear force of approximately five thousand warheads compared to the Soviet's three hundred.

I don't dream about anyone - except myself

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.