To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
To those who will see, the world waits.
Forget about weird Boy and move on
The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.
There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.
Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
He whom the gods love dies young.
I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
Sadat made us feel more secure.
The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.
I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.
One brave deed makes no hero.