Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Death was far more certain than God.

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together.

Innocence always calls mutely or protection when we would be so much wise to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

People who read always have something interesting to say.

When you get there there isn't any there there.

A poverty that is universal may be cheerfully borne; it is an individual poverty that is painful and humiliating.

I don't usually fly in first class, but I fart in first class.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

Hollywood is the only place in the world where an amicable divorce means each one gets fifty percent of the publicity.

In great teams, conflict becomes productive. The free flow of conflicting ideas is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.