All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors.

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

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.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Better start rushing before the rush begins!

I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.