Oh, God — the lives people try to lead. Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.
There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.
What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.
Unhappy failures need not apply.
Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.