The Jewish man with parents still alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

You bring out a passion in me I’ve never felt for anyone.

Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.

Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.

I wasn't a hacker for the money, and it wasn't to cause damage.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.

Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.

Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.

A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.