I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. - Kurt Vonnegut

The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.

Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.

Anita had the mechanics of marriage down pat, even to the subtlest conventions. If her approach was disturbingly rational, systematic, she was thorough enough to turn out a credible counterfeit of warmth.