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

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

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

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

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.