We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

All is foreseen but the choice is given.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.