It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.

Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.

Transforming education is not easy but the price of failure is more than we can afford, while the benefits of success are more than we can imagine.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.

Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence

I am a very impatient director.

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.