“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”

“You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

“If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it”