Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.