Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Never presume yours is a better morality.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.