People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

Thomas Paine

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

Calvin Klein

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Erica Jong

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Thomas Sowell

Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self.

C.S. Lewis

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

W. H. Auden

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

Hernan Cortes

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

Augustine Birrell

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

Anne Tyler

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Pindar

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking