It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
People perish. Books are immortal.
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.