One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.