People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

Memory demands an image.

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.

Any philosophy worth taking seriously would have to be built upon a firm foundation of unyielding despair.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.