“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
Intelligence“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.”
War“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
Intelligence“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
Great“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
Life“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
Good“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”
Art“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.”
Good“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.”
Architecture“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Best“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
Men“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
Love“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”
Good“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
Strength“Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.”
Age“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
Life“If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”
Success“I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.”
Hope“Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.”
Time“For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.”
War“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
Life