So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?

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.

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

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

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

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.