Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.