I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if read more

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after read more

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying.

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll read more

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as your solitude subsides .

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the read more

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you read more

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did read more

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.