People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people I would never never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority just...
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat...
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency the...
Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a...
Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write...
Ezra was right half the time and when he was wrong he was so wrong you were...
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a...
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become...
The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places.
I know war as few other men now living know it and nothing to me is more...
There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed...
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first...
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever...
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived...
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake you know?
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his...
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning...
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing...
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues...
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them...
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most...
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are...
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is...
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to...
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had...
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is...
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's...
What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you...
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the...
About morals I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and...
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it though...
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
