Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.
The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.
A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.