We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.
There is no group today in America who view the possibilities of war with more horror, and consider the large appropriations involved with more reluctance than do the officers of the General Staff. There is no thought in our minds to seize upon the dilemma of this tragic world situation as an opportunity to aggrandize the Army.
Then Chief of Staff of the Army, he was asking for a large military appropriation.
The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice.
I see this beautiful and tragic world, and I do my best to describe it, because it's been crushing to me since I was a kid. It seems to be how I connect.
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.