It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.