The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe ... that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.