He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.

Proving himself to himself was no small matter.

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

I will die kissing your mad cold mouth, embracing the lost bouquet of your body, and searching for the light of your closed eyes

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

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

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

Every sin is the result of collaboration.