It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become.

I am not a hero. Heroes do not cheat.

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me...

Your name hangs in my heart like a bell's tongue.

I am always successful in my work.

I think among the retired FBI agents there are some who would not like to see him come back, but I think the people running the FBI now are interested in catching him.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

You're demonstrating a courage that most people can't even fathom: giving it all away in order to have yourself

Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.