If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

The Mexican War was a training ground for generals, so that when the sad self-murders settled on us, the leaders knew the techniques for making it properly horrible.

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter, "Beware. You will never get out of this world alive."

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.