A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost. She should go far. The sooner she starts, the better. The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it.

Illegitimis non carborundum. Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind.

The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.

While there is life, there is hope.

When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

There can be no compromise with war.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.