The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.