21 Quotes by John Saul

Doubt is thus the space between reality and the application of an idea. It ought to be given over to the weighing of experience, intuition, creativity, ethics, common sense, reason and, of course, knowledge, in balanced consideration of what is to be done. The longer this stage lasts the more we take advantage of our intelligence.

Bankers: Pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

I hope I don't run any of you over.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society

The evolution from the $1 category to the $2 category might mean a marginal improvement or nothing at all or a worsening in poverty.

If you open your house to strangers, who knows who might come in. And what they might be after. Or whom.

The silence of the building closed around him like a shroud.

It had been no more than three minutes since she had awakened, laughing quietly, from her dream. Now the quiet laughter was over, and Polly MacIver was dead.

She felt that she’d been watching a shadow. A shadow of the dead.