Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

Love cannot in its very nature be peaceful or content. It is a restlessness, an unsatisfaction. I can grant a lasting love just as I can grant a lasting unsatisfaction; but the lasting love cannot be coupled with possession, for love is pain and desire and possession is easement and fulfilment.

They were firemakers! They were gods! [humans]

A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.