I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.