I think jeans with a little give are the smartest for a flight.
I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.
Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.
Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.
The war against ISIS will pose many new challenges for the next commander-in-chief. The last two presidents [George W. Bush and Barack Obama] pursued a Middle East policy that supported toppling dictators to try to promote democracy.
Stupidity is the only natural capital offense.
If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS. . . they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.