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.

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Hardly anyone in the world is an American

Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

... life, by definition, is never still.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.