One of the hardest parts of writing is writing from the gut or the heart or something like that rather than intellectually.

A dead enemy is a joy forever

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

Wine makes all things possible.

He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. When he slept, he dreamed: dark disturbing dreams of blood and broken promises. When he woke, there was nothing to do but think, and his waking thoughts were worse than nightmares.

Love is madness, and lust is poison.