When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

It was the most romantic plane ever made.