Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Part of the ability to keep writing over the years comes down to living with the expectation of disappointment. It's the exact opposite of capitalism. In capitalism you want you ...
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.