I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

Life is too magnificent to complain.

If you can live with less of what you have. You can be more of who you are.

From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.