“War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.”

I’m not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I’m such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I’m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can’t. It’s a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Everest is completely out of control. It’s like crack.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

Your belief system saturates the space around you.

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being ‘hegemonistic’, of engaging in ‘unilateralism’, of behaving as if we’re the only nation on earth that counts. We are.

I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed.

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

Liberals don’t hate America. We love America more than Ann Coulter does. I love it enough to engage my readers honestly.

If we don’t keep people engaged, we’re not going to move you. And if we move you, we’ve done something useful. That’s what anybody who writes genre knows.

I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.