You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.

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.

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Never mistake motion for action.