Murder Offers The Promise Of Vast Relief.

Love Is Simple To Understand If You Haven't Got A Mind Soft And Full Of Holes. It's A Crutch, That's All, And There Isn't Any One Of Us That Doesn't Need A Crutch.

Amateurs... Venture Into Scenes That A Writer With More Experience (and More Professional Concern) Would Bypass Or Eschew Altogether.

A Really Good Style Comes Only When A Man Has Become As Good As He Can Be. Style Is Character. A Good Style Cannot Come From A Bad Undisciplined Character.

For 40 Years We Were Led To Think Of The Russians As Godless, Materialistic And An Evil Empire. When The Cold War Ended, We Suddenly Discovered That Russia Was A Poor Third World Country. They Had Not Been Equipped To Take Over The World. In Fact, They Were Just Trying To Improve A Miserable Standard Of Oppressive Living, And Couldn't. They Had To Spend Too Much On Arms Build-up. We Didn't Win The Cold War; We Bankrupted The Russians. In Effect, It Was A Big Bank Exhausting The Reserves Of A Smaller One.

There's Nothing Glorious About Being A Professional. . . . Professionalism Probably Comes Down To Being Able To Work On A Bad Day.