There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.
I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
We wait always for something that does not come.
Everybody has something wrong with them.