There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, large numbers can be a drawback, making it difficult to lose one's anonymity.

But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.

Your war memories will be with you forever, you'll be asked about them thousands of times after the war is over. People will get their respect for you from that-partly from that, don't get me wrong-but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.