I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

Wealth follows influence.

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

She had rarely been near Henry since then, and the sight of him now was like a concentrated dose.

One of the most liberating notions is learning how many truly do not care about you, and moreover, how the few who do care about you, marvel at your indifference.

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.

What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.