“As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.”
“Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.”
“The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense failed, otherwise I wouldn't write another one. If I wrote the perfect book, I wouldn't have to write again, and I wouldn't want to. That's not true for everyone, but it's true for me. I could walk away then. But so far I haven't managed to do it.”
“When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.”
“Stay open, who knows, lightning could strike.”
“When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.”
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.”
“Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.”
Alfred Jodl
Arthur Seyss-Inquart Politician
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Hans Frank Lawyer
Hans Fritzsche
Julius Streicher
Walther Funk
Wilhelm Frick
Wilhelm Keitel
