Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.