The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

History! Read it and weep!

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.