Over-eating is the most worthy of sins. It neither breaks up marriages nor causes road accidents.

I think the most important part of storytelling is tension. It's the constant tension of suspense that in a sense mirrors life, because nobody knows what's going to happen three hours from now.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.

All churches are an echo of this—the Cathedral of Nature.

When we come face-to-face with our fears we are really confronting ourselves.

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

It's hard to force a relationship with a stranger even if they happen to be someone you happen to share blood with.

A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small.

Every day is a different day in New York; there's always something new going on.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

Quit taking, start giving.