I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.