A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.