The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.