The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

The things men did or felt they had to do.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land. All the same, we are not often sad.

The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.

I had tasted power and I had used it up, but now I would get more of another kind. We would share it, and keep each other from the dark.

I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.

I always looked ahead.

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

Who could ever tell a story complete?

Women are successful in the business world because the business world was created by men. Men are babies. And women areGood With Kids.

The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

Isn't the best way to save face to keep the lower part shut?