It was always the secrets that hurt us, wasn't it? Not the telling of them.

Wisdom is the spine of a business, money is its oxygen, and God is its strength and life.

Ignorance is a deep darkness.

Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?

What I dream of is an art of balance.

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.