The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest.

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

The hardest thing about being a communist is trying to predict the past.

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

It is in community where we find our very selves.

That's what I love about Michael Douglas' performance in Wonder Boys, because I feel like he surprises audiences that know him from very different roles in his other work.

As you will it, so shall it be.

The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.