I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.

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.

The order I found was the order of disorder

All things lie dark in possibility.

In the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.