Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

Never mistake motion for action.

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.