Better to be dirty than dead.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

It's like practicing pole vaulting your entire life, and then getting to the olympics and saying, ‘what the hell did I want to jump over this stupid bar for?

A writer looks at an issue and asks, 'What if this were to occur? Or what if that was thrown into the mix? What would that look like?

You can't fight light by using darkness.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

The only kind of writing is rewriting.

[Eva Braun] was the one who was involved with [Adolf Hitler], who was close to him.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.