I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway. Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best. I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers.
We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.
Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
I like a woman who takes care of herself - it says something about the way she'll care for me.
Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.
Nobody leaves this band unless it's in a coffin
If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.