Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

The unemotional life is not worth living.

Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library.  This book I had again and again perused with delight.

Unity not uniformity must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated not annihilated not absorbed.

Most of the time when you see a movie, the best character in the movie is not "the guy," it's the guy next to the guy.

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

Calculated and craven political stunt.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.