Innocence is a kind of insanity

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Death was far more certain than God.

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

They killed him because he was too innocent to live.

Neither of us mentioned him when we woke on the morning after his death...One is not jealous of the dead, and it seemed easy to me that morning to take up our old life together.

Innocence always calls mutely or protection when we would be so much wise to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

All you need is a dream to drive you nuts.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.

My dad played in different clubs and open mic nights. But he mostly walked dogs. A lot of dogs.

It's quite difficult to write about photography as a photographer. A lot of better photographers than me have declined to do it.