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

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.

I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.

Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

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.

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

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.