War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance.

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

The problems I had existed before I did, and I discovered them.

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.