War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.