Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.