Some men want whores on the eve of battle, and some want gods. Jon wondered who felt better afterward.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

I love you too, sweet sister. But you're a fool. A beautiful golden fool.

I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]

I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe.