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.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

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

I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

What is moral is what you feel good after.