When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

Never confuse movement with action.

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?

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

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.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.