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 only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.