a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

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.

Writers turn dreams into print.