God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.