An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.