“Encounters with death and danger are only adventures to the survivors.”

“We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.”

“Everybody who is alive is a survivor, and everybody who is dead isn't," I said."So everybody alive must have the Survivor's Syndrome. It's that or death. I am so damn sick of people telling me proudly that they are survivors!”

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort”

“Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death.”