Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.