“Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.”

“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.”

“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.”

“Memories of lost love they do enpain,Fleeting images of what once was never again to gain.Hold tight those memories that slip through the mind, To walk in those fields again with hera dream divi...”

“As she left the cold arena Angel had to laugh,Beaten by that of a wisp girl and her subliming cunning craft.Jove lay silent in his orbit; brooding, deep, dreamless forweep,And faithful dog Sirius r...”