It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark