I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer. In seeking the Bird's death to free himself, Louie had chained himself, once again, to his tyrant. During the war, the Bird had been unwilling to let go of Louie; after the war, Louie was unable to let go of the Bird.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.