One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.