They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

I am so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

For what are we born if not to aid one another?