It’s those silly dreams that keep us alive.

I told some imprecisely imagined interlocutor that each year I hoped to have outgrown being moved by the autumn and each year I hadn't

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate.

I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio...

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.