When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men....It blew ideas away.

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.