If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.

The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside and out, he'd manage to hide a few little sins somewhere for his own discomfort. They're the last things we'll give up.

Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.