“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”

“Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.”

“The very name of Jesus means, "He shall save his people from their sins." He came to seek and save the lost, those who are enslaved by sin.”

“nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing.”

“Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn)”

“Our age has need of violence," he writes. And he is violence.”

“I once thought the greatest sin of war was violence. It isn't. The greatest sin is it requires good men to become practical.”

“[A] falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.”

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.”

“God save me from idealists.”