If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.
Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.
Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
A man who claims to be fearless is an idiot or a liar.
If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.
In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.
Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.
I loved all the world’s mythologies.
There’s this huge number of desperate people.
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues – it’s one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
Count the deed, not the thought.