Herman Wouk Quotes
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.
The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you're not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one.
We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.
War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.
I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.
A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root. The works he sends up into the sunlight are his fruits, and only those are worthy of attention.
About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.
My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.
The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.
Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.
Boys fight the wars. We’d have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.
Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours there is no life without them.
