I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.

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