You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

All thinking men are atheists.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.