I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Books are humanity in print.