Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.