The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

One cat just leads to another.

My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.