A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.