Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

I believe in God the way my dog does

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.