Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

The fight isn't over until you win it...That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks.

Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. "He cheated! He used fire!""No, he won fairly enough!"

It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

Musicians tell me, if what I'm doing is right, they should never have gone to school.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

John McCain has already tapped me.

What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.