Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.