No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.

It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible