The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the wrong hands, led too easily to horrible brutality.

Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.

I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

The point at which beliefs meet may be more significant, more useful to contemplate, than their sources.

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.