This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

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

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

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.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

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

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.