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.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

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

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

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.

I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.