When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

I might not be a good socialist, any more than I'm a good Christian, but I am one.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

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.

I enjoy learning technical details.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.