I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

What you are about to witness is a blot upon the civilization of the twentieth century."- Sing Sing Deputy Warden Spencer Miller, Addressing Antonio Pontón’s execution witnesses on January 7, 1916

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.

I see you looking at my cookies,' my father said to Morelli. 'Don't even think about it. Go get your own cookies.

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.