No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.