I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.