You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business. They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

We could live offa the fatta the lan'.