A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.

What happens after death is so glorious that our imagination, our feelings do not suffice to form even an approimate conception of it. Memories and Dreams, Carl Jung

The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership.

Venison and venery defeated me.

I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses me. Why do I say the same things over and over?

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.