Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.