Herman Wouk

“He was just head over ears in love, with a young woman as near as his hand and as remote as a…

— Herman Wouk

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

— Herman Wouk

This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.

— Herman Wouk

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

— Herman Wouk

“the one loophole that military wisdom can never quite button up—the sympathy of the downtrodden for each other.”

— Herman Wouk

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

— Herman Wouk

“The girl you marry and the woman you must make a life with are two different people.”

— Herman Wouk

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

— Herman Wouk

The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you are not an idiot, but find yourself…

— Herman Wouk

“Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a…

— Herman Wouk

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

— Herman Wouk

“In Judaism praying for benefits is a very small part of the liturgy. Most of it is commitment of one's fortunes to…

— Herman Wouk

The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I…

— Herman Wouk

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will…

— Herman Wouk

“So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the…

— Herman Wouk

I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.

— Herman Wouk

“no man who rises to command of a United States naval ship can possibly be a coward. And”

— Herman Wouk

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

— Herman Wouk

The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we…

— Herman Wouk

“She had learned from her encounter with Mike Eden that there really was more than one man in the world-the piece of…

— Herman Wouk

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

— Herman Wouk

“To sum up, then, we are Israelites, descended from the small nation which came out of the Sinai desert into Canaan three…

— Herman Wouk

“He had in his Bronx apartment a lodger less learned than himself, and much fiercer in piety. One day when we were…

— Herman Wouk

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are…

— Herman Wouk

“When you’re at the bottom, there’s no place to go but up,” said”

— Herman Wouk