War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

Hunting hawks did not belong in cages no matter how much a man coveted their grace no matter how golden the bars. They were far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.

My home is not a place it is people.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.

Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

Will Arnett is one of the funniest guys I know. He has seen it all and done it all and come out the other end pretty savvy and pretty strong.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.