The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

I didn't get to God by effort or title, I got there by invitation. God can lift you quickly if you let Him. He really cares.

Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

He stood there, glowing like the sun, and stared at her like she was the unbelievable one.

I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.

A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

My voice is still for war.

When I was 15, I was naive, looked like a grey mouse and felt second choice.