The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.