Είναι μάλλον φανερό απ' όσα είπα έως τώρα ότι όχι μόνο είμαι υπαρξιστής, αλλά φτάνω και στο σημείο να πω ότι δεν γνωρίζουμε τη φύση μας. Απλώς μαθαίν… - Norman Mailer

The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of insanity that soon he will be insane again and there is a world there more interesting than his own.

Croft had an instinctive knowledge of land, sensed the stresses and torsions that had first erupted it, the abrasions of wind and water. The platoon had long ceased to question any direction he took; they knew he would be right as infallibly as sun after darkness or fatigue after a long march.

A nation fights well in proportion to the amount of men and materials it has. And the other equation is that the individual soldier in that army is a more effective soldier the poorer his standard of living has been in the past.