I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Man is not made for defeat.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.