Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.

War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.