There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.

And no invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.