Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.