I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

I have only one bit of advice to beginning writers: be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.