Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.