Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.