“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”

“As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know what's been shared with me; confidences I would never betray, nor use as details in a novel.”

“I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM.”

“True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.”

“No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.”

“Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.”

“When the Rule of Law disappears, we are ruled by the whims of men.”