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.

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

Innocence is a kind of insanity

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.

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.

Keep your heart pure. Overlook an insult.

Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist.

Music and fashion inspire each other.

I hate caviar. Ugh! The freebase of food!

Wages will rise, jobs will return, and factories will come rushing, rushing back in to our country.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

Confidence shared is better than confidence only in yourself.

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

I'm like tax. You're going to pay one way or the other.