No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).