Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.

I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor.

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.