He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.