There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.