Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.