She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.