I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.