As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes.