This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse