To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not.
Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
He who pardons easily invites offense.
Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.
We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.
I like writing historical fiction.
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.
Scholars will argue with each other about everything.
When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
I rather like getting away from fiction.
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.
