There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.