There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.