It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.