I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.