You don't know a woman until you've met her in court.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Like all men who are Napoleonic in their ambitionshe has instincts about the nature of growth, a lover's sense of the momentof crisis, and he knewhow costly is defeat when it is not soothed by greater consciousness, and how wasteful is the profit of victory when there is not the courage to employ it.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing