When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.