Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.