Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

I remember that the single most vicious letter I ever read was the letter Hemingway wrote Scribners when they asked him to give a blurb for From Here to Eternity. It's there, in the Selected Letters for all to read, an example of a once great writer at his very worst. I doubt that he ever forgave Scribners for publishing James Jones in the first place. War, as Hemingway saw it, belonged to him.

Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.