How did we go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.

I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.