If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.