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.

He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

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

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.