We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

I don't hafta take his sass

Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.