The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.