Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

Those with the least always lose the most in war.

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Love is a fine cushion to rest upon, but only hate can make you a better person.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.