"The time comes in the life of each of us when we realize that death awaits us as it awaits others, that we will recei…"

"...man...is a frail, lost creature, too weak to walk unaided."

"You can always tell an old battlefield where many men have lost their lives. The next Spring the grass comes up green…"

"If the common soldiers of each army could just get together by a river bank and talk things over calmly, no war could…"

"All we know is that life is sweet and that it does not last long. Why should people be envious of each other? Why do …"

"I saw much during my thirty years as a professional soldier, and I have watched the reactions of many men to pain, hu…"

"People are born in sorrow and move about the earth in patterns of sorrow without sense and without plan. Why should I…"

"In the sight of my beloved, I am like iron that the smith has heated at his furnace: iron whose surface gives heat. I…"

"The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction."

"The unrecognized genius of our time."