My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long," she said in English. "I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that." "My life is nothing but room for you." I said. "It could never be filled by anyone but you.

I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.