"The only time I've ever been moderately successful in combat was in the bottom of my class at West Point because of a…"

"I cleared the first magnolia, but then the main wing strut broke, and I came down in Mrs. Napier's rose bushes. It's …"

"For now, the seriousness of war had gradually come to me. Unless men like myself-thousands and millions of them-left …"

"There is an archaic regulation at West Point that says a cadet shall not own a horse, a dog, or a moustache. Had the …"

"Weekends became training manoeuvres conducted in total secrecy- a uniformed cadet could hardly ride a motorcycle open…"

"One Sunday, I was carrying out my training in a reveries, my imagination running wild as I gunned my machine into a t…"

"Colonel Richardson had everything safely under control long before I caught up with him, drenched to the waist after …"

"Why are such machines necessary, a schoolchild might well ask? I would answer that having such weapons ready is the b…"

"As these words are being written, I am in the process of moving back to Georgia. Whatever the merits of Horace Greele…"

"Anyway, my adventures had run out by 1982 when I made the worst mistake of my life by shutting myself away to work ni…"