Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

It is never a mistake to say good-bye.

It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.