There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

See the cat? See the cradle?

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.

I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.

egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means "outside the herd." imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd.