War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse.
战争是一件丑陋的事情,但不是最丑陋的事情:道德和爱国情感的腐化和堕落状态认为没有什么事情值得一场战争,这要糟糕得多。
The life of a writer is absolutely solitary. He has to be alone to do his work.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.