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.

If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Murder offers the promise of vast relief. It is never unsexual.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.