That's the ultimate pornography. There's nothing more pornographic than glorifying war.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.

Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.

Surviving is much more painful than death.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.