Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.

I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!"

Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.