I'm a pleaser. That's my character.
Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.
The man who has no problems is out of the game.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
A thief believes everybody steals.
The most destructive criticism is indifference.
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
she died of internal weeping
Blush like you mean it
All of my books come from pain.
We hold these truths to be self-evident. { .}
Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.
I don't think I get angry.
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.
The Army was my bread and butter.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
Ice cream is my vice.