Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter.