It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.

Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.