Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.

All thinking men are atheists.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

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

I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.