The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers.

I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.