For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor.

Gods have bloody hands.

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

Generosity is never out of season.

You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

One man, one horse, one holocaust on demand.

We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

Praying the sinners prayer does not heal you. It saves you

I love to read, I love to watch movies, and I love to be with my children.

That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging