Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.