No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

War is not won by victory.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?

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.