Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

And anything worth dying for

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.

I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.