Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks.

If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.

Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.