There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.

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

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

Let's die of it before we're too old.