With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.

Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.