Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Power is neither male or female.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you.