Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

How unconvincing. Try again.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

People have different ways of interpreting history.

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

Perfect little dream, The kind that hurts the most.