Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.

War is not won by victory.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.