A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.