Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.