. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

Reading, not just an escape, but an exercise in living.