He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway. "You're home. To me.

Losing your family... it puts fear in a different perspective, Chase had once told me.

Don't do that again! Not ever again!" I told him."I should say the same to you, " he said. I could feel his breath, warm on my neck. "Promise me!" I demanded."I... I promise.""I can't lose you.

I promise I'll come back. No matter what happens." Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely. "I'll wait for you, " I told him.

Nature is well-spring of life.

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

There's plenty of room for all sorts of movies and all sorts of comedies, so I never saw that as a competitive thing. I think there's room in the marketplace for everything.

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.

Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.