And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers.

No one ever stopped when they were winning.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.