And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Take life seriously but none of the people in it.

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.