Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.