From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.