For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.