A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize he will still for months wake up in the night with a start worrying about food and rent.

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc.

I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before – what were the policies and actions before – and I thought that I need to be critical if I’m going to do anything at all.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

I don't believe in karma.