Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.