In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

The end is where we start from.

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where.

To make an end is to make a beginning.