Look now — in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man who kills must be destroyed because this is a great sin, maybe the worst sin we know. And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, 'Use it well, use it wisely.' We put no checks on him. Go out and kill as many of a certain kind or classification of your brothers as you can. And we will reward you for it because it is a violation of your early training.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy