Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

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

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.