An Insider's View of War

"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end."

~ Douglas MacArthur

Civilization as an excuse for incivility

"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later."

~ Lewis Carroll

"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."

~ Robert E. Howard

Lie awake?

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."

~Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts" US cartoonist (1922 - 2000)

writers vs. authors

"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

~ Colette