“It existed almost by oversight, “far removed from reality,” as one of the “Kandy Kids” wrote, “where everyone had an academic interest in the war but found life far too pleasant to do anything too drastic about it.”

“Human beings... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.”

“Contempt for one's own comrades, for the troops of the enemy, and, above all, fierce contempt for one's own person, are what war demands of everyone. Far better is it for an army to be too savage, too cruel, too barbarous, than to possess too much sentimentality and human reasonableness.”

“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”

“Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...”

“as far as he was concerned , Henry's sudden interest was a case of too little too late”