Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Never mistake motive for action.

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

We wait always for something that does not come.