When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

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

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

When a novel comes, it's a grace. Something in the cosmos has forgiven you long enough so that you can start.

The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.