I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same.

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

You are better than you think.

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.