You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more.

The smallest coffins are the heaviest.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.