“With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.”

“She didn't feel anything, no grief or remorse, though her heart was racing and her breath came in gasps. A shocky combat-high, that immortal rush that made men charge machine guns. So this was what the war-addicts came for.”

“Mind is infinite and self-ruled, and is mixed with nothing, but is alone itself by itself.”

“She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source of her everlasting attraction for him, perhaps; she was a person to whom one could say what came into one's head.”

“Without fear of God as a basis, nothing is possible spiritually, for the absence of fear is a lack of self-knowledge.”

“When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.”

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.”

“Only with her I was not alone, now I am alone with everyone.”

“I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.”