I hope I never become so used to the world that it no longer seems wonderful.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.

It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.

I've found the secret of happiness, total disregard of everybody.

Without me there could be no everybody.