Write a page a day. It will add up.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Let us fill a cup and drink to that most noble, ridiculous, laughable, sublime figure in our lives... The Young Man Who Was. Let us drink to his dreams, for they were rainbow-colored; to his appetites, for they were strong; to his blunders, for they were huge; to his pains for they were sharp; to his time for it was brief; and to his end, for it was to become one of us.

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.

War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.