You get only two or three important choices in life. What job you do, whom you marry. Those are big decisions. If you’re right about those two decisions, you’ll probably be happy.

It’s a picture of hope because the kid without his legs? The one burned and cut and deathly pale? He lived.And he’s going to be fine.

because admitting your limitations, and accepting help, makes you stronger, too.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.The day you die.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

I'm not big on the after-death experience. If you've done a very good job in your current lifetime, then your next lifetime will be set up for you.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

No individual photo explains anything. That’s what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

I extend my appreciation to the associations, movements and all those who defend human life.