Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but he isn't part of whatever the fabric is that makes a nation.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.