When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.