People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste-they must, they take in too much.

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

As Kierkegaard was the first to suggest, we can never know where our prayers are likely to go nor from whom the answers will come. When we think we are nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day.

You have the right to speak your mind.