We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.
If one starts with the anatomical difference, which even a patriarchal Viennese novelist was able to see was destiny, then one begins to understand why men and women don't get on very well within marr...
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what...
Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.
I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.
Seward appreciated the honest and open way that Stanton lied; it was the hallmark of the truly great lawyer, and demonstrated a professional mastery not unlike his own.
I would not be surprised if elephants are more intelligent than human beings. After all, their heads are larger than ours, and the fact that they do not speak might well be an indication of superiorit...
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
يبدو أن كثيرين من الجنوبيين يكتبون . ربما بسبب الحرب الأهلية . يجب الحصول على مأساة لكي نحصل على أدب .
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most...
Safe at the opposite corner, Clancey was himself again — coolly disdainful despite dirt-smeared face, torn shirt ... Clancey's voice is like that of a furious goose, all honks and hisses.
Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to beat war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror,
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those liberals who prefer to improve the live...
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
Of all this world’s creatures, the author is the vainest,