All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

In a power hungry, power worshipping society, men label themselves atheist.

Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure).

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.