What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

To understand the kingdom love is to have changed system

Matt was the antidote to fear and trepidation. It was as if he’d become so acquainted with death that he could sit in its lap and ask it to tell him bedtime stories.

If I advocate cautious optimism it is not because I do not have faith in the future but because I do not want to encourage blind faith.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

As long as I'm needed. I'll be ready to serve. I look forward with optimism. We need the Jews here. Move to Israel! Move to Israel!

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

The successful writer listens to himself.

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.