Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

When it's going well [writing] goes terribly fast. It isn't at all surprising to write a chapter in a day, which for me is about twenty-two pages. When it's going badly, it isn't really going badly; it's just the beginning.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.