Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
. . . if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
In reality, people are who they are and they'll never really change.
Every quarterback can be rattled. There's no guy who can't be.
The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.