We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are hard to come by." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 2

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Walk into any bookstore and you’ll find hundreds of books telling you how to live. Don’t be misled, and don’t be deceived. Instead, build your life on the truth God has given us in His Word.

The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

I was always confident and comfortable. But motherhood is what really made me feel beautiful.

We have happy days, remember good dinners.

You'd think that sweet would be a land far, far away from irritating, but as it turns out they're right next door, and always having border disputes.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.