Sons of suicides seldom do well.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

Love is where you find it.

You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.