Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

My guess [is] . . . that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. . . . I think the country has long been ready to restrict the use of guns, except for hunting rifles and shotguns, and now I think we're prepared to get rid of the damned things entirely - the handguns, the semis and the automatics.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.