We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Never fall in love?" "Always," said the count. "I am always in love.

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.