The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.