You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Your blood coagulates beautifully.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.