Suffering Is How We Test Our Love

I Went To War. .... I Survived, While Other Men Around Me Died. ... Men Whose Lives Were Crunched Up In Mistakes, And Thrown Away By The Wrong Second Of Someone Else's Hate, Or Love, Or Indifference.

There's A Kind Of Luck That's Not Much More Than Being In The Right Place At The Right Time, A Kind Of Inspiration That's Not Much More Than Doing The Right Thing In The Right Way, And Both Only Really Happen To You When You Empty Your Heart Of Ambition, Purpose, And Plan; When You Give Yourself, Completely, To The Golden, Fate-filled Moment.

I Think The Novel Form Chose Me. I Was A Writer Before I Became A Criminal... My First Instinct Was To Write.

Civilization, After All, Is Defined By What We Forbid, More Than What We Permit.

There Are No Mistakes. Only New Paths To Explore.