An Age Is Called Dark Not Because

Rampaging Horsemen Can Conquer; Only The City Can Civilize.

I Would Suppose I Learned How To Write When I Was Very Young Indeed. When I Read A Child's Book About The Trojan War And Decided That The Greeks Were Really A Bunch Of Frauds With Their Tricky Horses And The Terrible Things They Did, Stealing One Another's Wives, And So On, So At That Very Early Age, I Re-wrote The Ending Of The Iliad So That The Trojans Won. And Boy, Achilles And Ajax Got What They Wanted, Believe Me. And Thereafter, At Frequent Intervals, I Would Write Something. It Was Really Quite Extraordinary. Never Of Very High Merit, But The Daringness Of It Was.

I Was A Navy Officer Writing About Navy Problems And I Simply Stole This Lovely Army Nurse And Popped Her Into A Navy Uniform, Where She Has Done Very Well For Herself.

A Writer Can Make A Fortune In America, But He Can't Make A Living.

I've Spent My Life Trying To Be Better Than I Was, And I Am A Brother To All Who Share The Same Aspiration.