Courage is grace under pressure.

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

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love