And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

... every little boy thinks he invented sin.

A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em.

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.