“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

Never confuse movement with action.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

I’m a strong alpha male but sensitive.