I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.

You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.

We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

While Donald Trump is showing some strength in places like Iowa, it's just not enough to get him close to getting the electoral votes that he needs to win.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.

The best way to fight evil is to do some good. Let me qualify that—the best way to fight evil at home is to do some good. The best way to fight them abroad is to unleash the military.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.