Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.

If I had wanted to be a pawn in a game, I would have taken up chess...

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised as a very liberal Democrat, and she was protesting Nixon when he was in office.

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.