Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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.

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

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.