The three radios, the six cars, the four refrigerators, the seven telephones in each of the 300,000 Jewish households, and the super-television! - Louis-Ferdinand Céline

...the material bungling, the ladder-climbing and the shit, you are going marvelously to be served! Shitty! You yourselves are promised to the revolutionary puppies! Bulging eyed, aberrant, pontificating, cock-up cancers, you committed at the outset the capital, inexpiable mistake: you have bet according to your guts, you have adulated, exalted, fawned on and glorified your tripes.

We are, by nature, so futile that distraction alone can prevent us from dying altogether.

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.