In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

I wrote my will across the sky, in stars

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

Your success will be proportioned to the amount of mental effort you devote to it.

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

I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.