People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.

What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?

Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.

She was there, and she was the whole city, and that’s that.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

A Grandmother is a safe haven.

You become great by going small thing in a great way.