it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.