Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.