A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.