The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

most of our social and educational institutions are designed to weed out or make over people ... until we produce a world where everyone is a smart, quick-witted, aggressive person living on the surface of the mind without ever looking into the depths.

There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.

Everything you do in war is a crime in peace