We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.