Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read.
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court.
I'm going to go down swinging. . . I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
I was eight when he left office. Like, he had an awesome house, you know, and my cousins and I had awesome trips to Camp David and Washington. It was just all like a good time for me.
I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star.