[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

...these sleepless nights, when oddly enough my concentration was high, fueled perhaps by the effort to ignore the all-engrossing threat of bombs and rockets.

And even with the book closed, the voices do not stop--there are echoes and reverberations that seem to leap off the pages and mischievously leave the novel tingling in our ears.

The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country, his home, was that of the imagination.

My toe as a lethal weapon!

I went on and on, and as I continued, I became more righteous in my indignation. It was the sort of anger one gets high on, the kind one takes home to show off to family and friends.

She looked not so much composed as drawn inward. She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.

Your baby is smarter than you think.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

Luck never gives; it lends.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

U.S. Constitution is under attack from Fundamentalist Islam and shari'a.

All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend.