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.

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

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

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 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.

You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle.

Without your health, you've got nothing going on. I thank God every day for good health.

Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Women do not need a knight in shining armor or a Prince Charming to come to their rescue.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.

Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.