Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Rupert Grayson manifested a talent for survival: it was said of him that even if - unlikely contingency - he had tried to drown himself in the Thames he would have been washed up alive in the Grill Room of the Savoy.

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

Survival is triumph enough.

But just get through this day. That's all you have to do.

... a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.

I survived.

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

We have ourselves to save.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.