If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.
It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.
If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
I've never read one book about my father.
I worry about international terror as a method for bringing about political change or sociological change in different countries. And this concerns me because our homeland is not - we see now, is not immune from this kind of dastardly attack. And so I worry about that a lot.
Remember always what you set out to get, and please don’t settle for less.