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.

Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.

When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.