As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I conducted. It influenced Republicans and Democrats alike. Ministers preached politics publicly and churches distributed the most vicious electioneering materials. Practically no one I met escaped the pressure of this overriding problem and both parties were ultimately forced to make their major calculations with the religious question a foremost consideration.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.