When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

All a poet can do today is warn.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

No-man's land under snow is like the face of the moon: chaotic, crater ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

If you tell me, it's an essay. If you show me, it's a story.

You can't fight hearts and minds with money.

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.