Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

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

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.