The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.