The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

If we rated greatness by the influence of the great, we will say "Muhammad is the greatest of the great in history

One must acknowledge with cryptography no amount of violence will ever solve a math problem.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.

Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.