The further you go in writing the more alone you are.

There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

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.

How little we know of what there is to know.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.