The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.