“If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.”

“i find nothing more depressing than optimism.”

“The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth notingthe way it offers no provision for transmitting news like I have lost my left leg or I have been admitted into hospital wounded...”

“The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.”

“Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.”

“If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”