I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or...
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...