Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

Information is the hardest currency.

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.