The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

News is like the tilefish which appears in great schools off the Atlantic Coast some years and then vanishes, no one knows whither or for how long. Newspapers might employ these periods searching for the breeding grounds of news, but they prefer to fill up with stories about Kurdled Kurds or Calvin Coolidge, until the banks close or a Hitler marches, when they are as surprised as their readers.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy