My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

God is the nest we build together.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.