A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

When the State withers, humanity flowers.

I didn't think; I experimented.

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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