“Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.”

“He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if hed peed himself, it didnt matter, none of it mattered...”

“Don't let 'em see they killed you!”

“This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life.”

“... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”