War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.