I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

It's not up to one individual to decide, 'I'm going to dictate the outcome of what's going to happen legislatively.' That is not a democracy; it's an atrocity.

I started off at a local newspaper called 'The Middle East Times,' which is no longer in existence. I remember one of the earliest stories that I wrote for them was a study about domestic violence in Egypt from a government-run research institute think tank.