Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

Look around you, something is behind you. find it whether it's me or your Shadow

Uncle said, "If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in the national interest.