You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

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

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.