It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.