You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.

When you have a child, the world has a hostage.

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

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.