All bad writers are in love with the epic.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.

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.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.