There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

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.

The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.

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

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

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'