The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

I think one of the worst things people can do is try and fight the people they've agreed to work with.

Only if the computers really love each other.

I had rather be right than be President.

Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

I have a huge author crush on Stephen King. Have never met him. Would probably embarrass myself. But it would be worth it.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.