It is better to learn war early from friends, than late from enemies.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

You're surprised at all the blood.He looks over at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping open, his face almost as white as his shirt.He's surprised, too.

I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.

Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

I think it helps the writers to sell their books, if they announce my attachment, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to make the movies in the next year, or two, or three.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, is more denials. They are now denying their own study.

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.