Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.

Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

All nineteen-year-old males are children who are men capable of war.

The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, ” Miranda asked, “whether women have all the power or no power at all?

That’s what nobody admits about men, how needy they are.

Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.

That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.

Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one fewer body will burn?

Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy

Fill the pages of your life with the exciting story of triumph and tragedy, failure and victory, desire and discovery.

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

Style is whatever you want to do, if you can do it with confidence.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.

Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.