The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

This is a good place," he said. "There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

Not the why but the what.