Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

Man is not made for defeat.