Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.