The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.
What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.
Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.
I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.