You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.

The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

We are flawed creatures with explosive feelings that subconsciously aspire to be non-violent sociopaths.

I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.

I feel as though I've been very fortunate in my career, which is not all that long, so far.

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.

The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.