Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

You've such a lovely temperature.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.