How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

There are many who stay away from church these days because you hardly ever mention God any more.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.