An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.