Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

My, my. A body does get around.

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.