In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

Everybody is as unstable as water.

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.