Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. Because it doesn't agitate against human nature.

...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.