Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

My big fish must be somewhere.

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.