A good writer always works at the impossible.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

It occurs to me that just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans being in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. I hope we may not be overwhelmed one day by peoples not too proud or too lazy or too soft to bend to the earth and pick up the things we eat.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.