I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it..

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule..

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout..

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans..

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand..

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud..

This life is slow suicide, unless you read..

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife..

Write a page a day. It will add up..

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his drea….

The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith..

We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves..

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight..

A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention..

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot..