It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.