"I write to reach eternity."

"It will say just about everything I have ever had to say, or will ever have to say, on the human condition of war and…"

"I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow."

"Colour makes a difference. Gender makes a difference. Ethnicity makes a difference. Acting as if they don't will crea…"

"When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands,…"

"Somewhere along the line, he thought, these things have become your heritage. You are multiplied by each sound that y…"

"Unofficially, nobody really minded the clap. It was a joke to those who had never had it and to those who had been ov…"

""A deathbed promise is the most sacred one there is," she hawked at him from the lungs that were almost, but not quit…"

"Why was it everything was always so goddam complicated? Even the simplest things was so goddam complicated when you c…"

"This place is hell. They herd you around like cattle; they order you around like dogs; they work you like horses; and…"