I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay.

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.