People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.

Yes' Simon nodded. 'This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, when the shapes develop no further, and the phone ceases to function.

Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started.

I live to service you

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Science for the Citizen is ... also written for the large and growing number of adolescents, who realize that they will be the first victims of the new destructive powers of science misapplied.

The furthest possible thing from the truth is that I hate or dislike women.

Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on