It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. – Taylor Caldwell
The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity. – Taylor Caldwell
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death. – Taylor Caldwell
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. – Taylor Caldwell
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy. – Gary Saul Morson, The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel, 2012