No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

All thinking men are atheists.

Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell, " I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good, " I said. "That's what I want too.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

No white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.

I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you." Her face is buried in my neck. She nods. "I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.