126 Quotes by Herman Wouk

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

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

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

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

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

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.

The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see a meager Hollywood caper called Youngblood Hawke, vaguely based on my 800-page novel. So it was that I opted for television, with its much broader time limits, for The Winds of War.