It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.