Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

God is a creator, not a law giver.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

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

Television is coitus interruptus brought into aesthetics.

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.