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The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'
Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.
When I started writing, I just hoped for a nice little paperback series.
“One Minus One’”and “Barcelona, 1975” are more or less autobiographical.
'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.
I'm someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.
Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.
The movie 'Rock 'n' Roll High School' was a sacred text in my household.
Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear
Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.
There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.
A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.
I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
Alack, this world Is full of change, change, change--nothing but change!
Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.
There's nothing like a mission to save the world to liven up a vacation.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
A successful man cannot realize how hard an unsuccessful man finds life.
... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.
don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.
Nobody can make a monkey out of anyone who isn't a monkey to start with.
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together.