Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

Be unwilling to lose.

He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: “This is as amusing as a novel.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

...when I prayed to receive Jesus Christ as my Savior, I had made that promise...: 'If You'll make Your will for my clear, I'll do it no matter what!'

There is no issue of States' rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.

I think Texans have more fun than the rest of the world