It was quite a European war until 1917 when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

When I sit at my table to write I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18 so I'll use it for college.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.