A man's head is his castle.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.