Everybody writes a book too many.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

Nothing is absolute any longer. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

People are ashamed to admit they need a revival.

If you vote for Al Smith, you're voting against Christ and you will all be damned.

I'm criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I've had my pot shots at them. I'm fair game.

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

And the peace which I always found in the silence and emptiness of the moors filled me utterly

It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the sea and some great secert was to be revealed.

Every precious human being born should have the right to live, love, and maximize his or her potential without suffering from discrimination.

Money, media, and political power are very closely connected.

Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

I don't think that anybody really makes films quite like mine. That's maybe true of any filmmaker.

I am open to everything.

There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory.