You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap….

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die..

Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man..

Television is a young person's medium..

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy..

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations..

You know what circumcision is, Private?.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've n….

I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear c….

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career..

We all suffer from dreams.

Writing is a solitary occupation..

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work someh….

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable)..

I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know tha….

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation..