I went on and on, and as I continued, I became more righteous in my indignation. It was the sort of anger one gets high on, the kind one takes home to show off to family and friends.

...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.

And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country, his home, was that of the imagination.

My toe as a lethal weapon!

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.

It is a joy to Jesus when a person takes time to walk more intimately with Him. The bearing of fruit is always shown in scripture to be a visible result of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.