“There are no atheists in the foxhole.”

“I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I...”

“If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.”

“There is no sense in the struggle but there is no choice but to struggle.”

“War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.”

“But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession...”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.”

“Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.”

“drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves”

“Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.”

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”