I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.