We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

Everybody has something wrong with them.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.