When he is sick, every man wants his mother.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface