I always think of books as being like people. Even the dull ones are worthy of decent respect, but you don't have to seek them out and spend time with them.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate it would've been wasted if you hadn't

The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.