Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter.

People go to the movies instead of moving.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…

I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.

If you love everyone, how will you ever find an enemy?

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.

I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.