Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has...

Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our...

What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what...

Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I wanted, from an early age, to be a writer, and that name - that E - was a way of pretending I...

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand, Julian Sands, Gena Rowlands, Rob Lowe, Julia Ormond, Chelsea Hobbs, Tate Donovan,...

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and...

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.