All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.