Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination.

No one should be judged by the worst moment of his life.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better.

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

The only judgment that truly matters is the final judgment.

he knew that men were too complex to be defined by the worst moment in their lives

Anger creates distances that shouting increases.

Wise people are motivated by the quotes and by the books.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.

The goal is to provide inspiring information that moves people to action.

Heaven be their resource who have no other but the charity of the world, the stock of which, I fear, is no way sufficient for the many great claims which are hourly made upon it.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

I live to die; better that than to live a lie.