Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.