The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Why must we fight for the right to live, over and over, each time the sun rises?

You aren't a true husband/man until you've done the work of a wife/women

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.

You must seek what you desire.

I was thinking of Cambridge, and then I got a bit homesick for a minute, 'cause I never been this far away from home before. But the I remember you're here, and now I'm not homesick no more.

Take therefore no thought of the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.

Inaction counted as a choice.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

There's definitely a melancholic ingredient in Cafe Tacvba concerts in the United States versus in other places.