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.

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

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.

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.