People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.