If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.
Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.
Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
I believe in God. God created the world.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
My parents had a great work ethic.
The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
I feel great physically. I feel really good.
Good TV is not just TV about good behavior.
I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.
Secrecy can be sexy. It's essential to any good mystery novel.
