Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Explore the deep ocean.

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

The biggest mistake a person can make is to lie to an engineer about a subject that they specialize in.

It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

I never sing in the shower either.

Nothing can occur in your life experience without the invitation of it through your thought.

If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"!

So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.