That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.

But only a fool sails into combat with nature

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.