"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life."

"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."

"For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence."

"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way."

"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them."

"It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it."

"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything."

"The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling."

"Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies."

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

"Neither enemy faces, nor the mothers that love them, come to mind when one is thinking of nothing but endeavouring to survive. Philosophising about war is useless under fire."