An answer is always a form of death.

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.

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed.

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

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

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

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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