An Immense Hatred Keeps Me Alive... I

The Best Way To Make A Sort Of Peace, A Fragile Armistice To Be Sure, But Precious All The Same, With Men, Officers Or Not, Is To Let Them Bask And Wallow In Childish Self-glorification. There’s No Such Thing As Intelligent Vanity. It’s An Instinct. And You’ll Never Find A Man Who Is Not First And Formenost Vain. The Role Of Admiring Doormat Is About The Only One That One Man Is Glad To Tolerate In Another. With These Soldiers I Had No Need To Tax My Imagination.

It Is Of Men, And Of Them Only, That One Should Always Be Frightened.

I'd Seen Too Many Troubling Things To Be Easy In My Mind. I Knew Too Much And Not Enough. I'd Better Go Out, I Said To Myself, I'd Better Go Out Again.

Man Hardly Comes In More Than Two Varieties, Wherever He Is, Whatever He Does: Workers And Pimps ... They're Either One Or The Other! ... And Inventors, The Worst Kind Of Jobholder! ... They Stand Condemned! ... The Writer Who Doesn't Pimp Along, Peacefully Plagiarizing, Who Doesn't Pump Out The Pop Stuff, He's Had It! ... Everybody Hates Him!

Our Journey Is Entirely Imaginary. That Is Its Strength.