Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Isn't it pretty to think so.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

What is moral is what you feel good after.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

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.