Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at...
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This comes from a piece of wisdom that his climate of eternal summer teaches him. It is that, under all...
Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
No adult is without problems except a happy imbecile.
Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours there is no life without them.
When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Scholars call it [the Torah] the Masoretic text. The Masoretes were Hebrew scribes of the first centuries of the present era. They fixed the wording and spelling of the Bible; since then it has not ch...
I think appreciating Dickens goes with ten thousand in the bank.
So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up.
It’s occurred to me that our human values, our ideas of right and wrong, good and bad, evolved in simpler times, before there were machines.
The one loophole that military wisdom can never quite button up—the sympathy of the downtrodden for each other.
This life is slow suicide, unless you read.
This game still had its old ritual fascination for Pug; he was following it tensely, smoking a cigar. Once his nostalgia had been keen for the tough youthful combat on the grass, the slamming of bodie...
Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and the fearful...Now the belief in God may turn out at the last trump to...
Boys fight the wars. We’d have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.
The Jewish Sabbath may be too hard for some people, or they may not subscribe to its ideas; but within its own terms it is a dramatic ceremony penetrating all of life. It is not simply a day off. This...
I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can'...
Al nations celebrate the day of their coming into being with a work stoppage and ceremonies. The Jews, who believe that God created the universe, celebrate its coming into being, and give thanks to it...