[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
While we live, let us live.
Man is a thought-adventurer.
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.