At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

If you want, you can be a child for the rest of your life and be a great LEARNER

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live.

Leave me, and go to another, but never stand alone

... creative output depends on creative input.

I obviously am cognizant of the fact that being handsome gives me greater breadth of opportunity. I'd hope that what I bring to the table far surpasses just being handsome.

Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.