The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?