Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

Powerful people have no regrets.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.