Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

There's something nice and safe about having money.

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.