A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

There is a misconception of tragedy with which I have been struck in review after review, and in many conversations with writers and readers alike. It is the idea that tragedy is of necessity allied to pessimism.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

The brain heals the past like an injury.