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...there are people who added goodness to the world and people who lived to destroy it.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.
I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.
If you have no conflict, you have no story. That's number one. That's a rule of novels.
If we one day cease to exist, what will be remarkable is that we were ever here at all.
There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham)
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
I will love you forever, he thought. I am lying, he thought, and this time he was right
Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
The nations that offer to arbitrate are the ones that think they should rule the world.
Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.
I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.
How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.
I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.
Love is a glimpse of hope. To love is to hope. When we abandon hope, we cease to exist.
The first thing to look out for after your first big success are drugs and screenplays.
It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.
There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading.
Silence can ask all the questions, where the tongue is prone to ask only the wrong one.
If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.
It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Yet the world is the same as it always was. It is merely that you see it with new eyes.
The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
I would love to have the power to stop waking at 3 a.m. every night to check my e-mail.
Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.