Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

With blinded eyes I stared at the sky, this grey, endless sky of a crazy god, who had made life and death for his amusement.

We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.