This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.