They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.