If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.