When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.