If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were.