...every now and then I watched him beam at Olivia. He obviously adored her. And I realized that meeting her father made me look at Olivia differently. She was somebody's little girl.

In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.

She’d known for years that good things didn’t last, that loved ones went away and dreams were as easy to reach as the stars in the sky.

To understand the new birth is to have a revelation of its mystery

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

One reason is because I was not being recognized the way I thought I should be recognized, so I stopped putting so much into what I was doing 'cause I was like 'Oh they don't care about it anyway...'

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.