There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

I will reach out to others and explain why I make the decisions I make.

To be spiritual means to be an emperor within yourself. This is the only way to be.

I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

In the end, the Tribune lost touch with the world it was supposed to reach; it mattered passionately, but almost exclusively, to those who worked for it.

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

There is much more to life than what gets measured in accounts. Even economists know that.