It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

The more the words of others impressed him with their factual content, the more he felt he must wait for his own facts before being tempted into words.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

Hail Caesar those who are about to die salute thee.

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had to learn again what they previously had known.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.