I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

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

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

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

... a war always ends.

Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.