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

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

War is not won by victory.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.