 Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. |
| Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. |
| Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. |
| Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. |
| The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. |
| A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. |
| We must believe in free will, we have no choice. |
| The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. |
| The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. |
| We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. |
| I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. |
| There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do. |
| Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. |
| Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. |
| When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. |
| The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. |
| If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. |
| A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. |
| There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. |
| When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. |
