Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

Love is nothing but lust misspelled.

The never-ending competition between writers hasn't changed between 1868 and 2000. I used to belong to writers' workshops with other professionals, but that becomes impossible after a while. Everyone's on a different step of the career ladder. Jealousy doesn't have to erupt into murder and burying someone in Wells Cathedral, but it is always there.