“Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.”

“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is ...”

“Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.”

“War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”

“If people think nature is their friend then they sure don't need an enemy.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”