I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.