Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.

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

Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.