"He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die."

"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

"The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory."

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be."

"Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations."

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone... they will be forced to deal with pain."

"When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living."

"The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."