I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.