Coming Up for Air quotes

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Fear! We swim in it. It's our element.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

Fishing is the opposite of war.

There's time for everything except the things worth doing.

A feeling of security, even when they weren't secure. More exactly, it was a feeling of continuity.

It's easy enough to die if the things you care about are going to survive.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

I'm not frightened of the war, only the after-war.

I don't want the women, I don't even want to be young again. I only want to be alive.

Coming up for air! But there isn't any air. The dustbin that we're in reaches up to the stratosphere.