In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.