Everything Is Touched By The Holy When

The Marine Corps Taught Me How To Kill, But It Didn't Teach Me How To Deal With Killing.

Really Important Books To Me Are The Classics. I Try Very Hard To Read Them Well - You Know, Especially Once I Got Serious About Writing.

I Began Writing 'matterhorn' In 1975 And For More Than 30 Years I Kept Working On My Novel In My Spare Time, Unable To Get An Agent Or Publisher To Even Read The Manuscript.

We All Want To Be Special, To Stand Out; There's Nothing Wrong With This. The Irony Is That Every Human Being Is Special To Start With, Because We're Unique To Start With. But We Then Go Through Some Sort Of Boot Camp From The Age Of Zero To About 18 Where We Learn Everything We Can About How Not To Be Unique.

Victory In Combat Is Like Sex With A Prostitute. For A Moment You Forget Everything In The Sudden Physical Rush, But Then You Have To Pay Your Money To The Woman Showing You The Door. You See The Dirt On The Walls And Your Sorry Image In The Mirror.