It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

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.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.

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

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?