The Simple Is Carefully Shunned By Those

Travel At Its Truest Is Thus An Ironic Experience, And The Best Travellers . . . Seem To Be Those Able To Hold Two Or Three Inconsistent Ideas In Their Minds At The Same Time, Or Able To Regard Themselves As At Once Serious Persons And Clowns.

"those Who Fought Know A Secret About Themselves, And It Is Not Very Nice." ... They Have Experienced Secretly And Privately Their Natural Human Impulse Toward Sadism And Brutality... Not Merely Did I Learn To Kill With A Noose Of Piano Wire Put Around Somebody's Neck From Behind, But I Learned To Enjoy The Prospect Of Killing That Way.

The Simple Is Carefully Shunned By Those Who Labour To Seem What They Would Be.

If Truth Is The Main Casualty In War, Ambiguity Is Another.

Most People Who Seek Attention And Regard By Announcing That They're Writing A Novel Are Actually So Devoid Of Narrative Talent That They Can't Hold The Attention Of A Dinner Table For Thirty Seconds, Even With A Dirty Joke.