"The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation."

“Anybody want some . . . toast?”

“I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.”

Source : "I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 02, 2011.

“Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.”

Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 109), 1985.

“The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.”

“Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.”

“We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms.”

“Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams”

“In writing, as in life, always be true to your character.”