If you live beyond your means and have to restructure as a result, you pay a price.
Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.
Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.
The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays. " Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
I've always felt that if I am deserving of the Medal of Honor, there are many, many others who are. I felt a little bad receiving it, so I received it on behalf of the fellows, because there's no such thing as a single-handed war. There's always a support group, and if you didn't have people who supported you, you couldn't fight a war.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
Anything that I've put my name to and my face to and put my time into, is something that I'm clearly passionate about, or I wouldn't be there.