Nostalgia-- that's the basic sickness, and I never heard of a doctor who can cure it.

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.

The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no answers.

We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up.

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

I need to get back to work,” Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. “Killer skirt. Deadly legs.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

All labels are offensive in some way.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

A defeat for ISIS in Iraq will be defeat for ISIS in Syria.

The price point and the quality are very rare. I don't want people thinking, "I got the look for less." I want them thinking, "I got the look!"