Reading to small children is a specialty.

Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Reading to small children is a specialty.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.