Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear.

We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

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.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.