“...the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves.”

“The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.”

“How young can you die of old age?”

“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”

“To die old with a young mind is such a tragedy. Naiveness was never a blessing.”

“Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.”