I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.