There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

Immorality, I know. Immortality, I cannot judge.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.