The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.