If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.