Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another..

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't..

People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill….

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into th….

Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to ….

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror..

I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have ….

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people..

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation..

It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the ….

I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific f….

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function..

So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found tha….

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain….

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety.

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate..

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge..

Still, it's an interesting technique-leaving one person behind in order to find her or him somewhere else. And in someone else..

She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among….

I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many wome….

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses..