Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

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

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

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.

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.