I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style.