When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever.

I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

All quiet along the Potomac.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution.

Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold

"Mr. Churchill you're drunk!" Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.