How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.