The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.
Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.
It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research.
A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.