What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.
We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.
A hospital alone shows what war is.
You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.
Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.