People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

In Christ we become God's sons, man's servants and the devil's masters.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I'm not an improv guy. I'm a writer-guy who presents what he's written.