Sex takes up a very small part of the day, anyway. It makes the rest of the day worth living. You
Remember this, if you can--there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at t...
Please tell Field Marshal Goring for me, to stick his Swiss bank account up his fat ass.
He was just head over ears in love, with a young woman as near as his hand and as remote as a star, and for the moment it was enough to be where she was.
The nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines—arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, rev...
Don’t make the mistake of skipping the Old Testament. It’s the core of all religion, I
Your country baffles me: a luxurious unharmed lotus land in which great hordes of handsome dynamic people either wallow in deep gloom, or play like overexcited children, or fall to work like all the d...
You can't assume a goddamned thing in this Navy.
Willie didn't have a historian's respect for the victories at Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, and Midway. The stream of news as it burbled by his mind left only a confused impression that our side was a bit...
The clear intent of our law is to enable a man to live in the world and yet hold his faith close to his daily thoughts.
The Second Table of the Ten Commandments reads in Hebrew something like this: 'Don't kill; don't be vile; don't steal; don't tell lies about others; don't envy any man his wife or house or animals, or...
Tell me, Briny, Natalie said, are you still having fun? He looked around at the noisy, crowded, evil-smelling ward, where the Polish women were helplessly bringing new life into a city which was being...
Seventeen days before the end of the war, the minesweeper Caine finally swept a mine.
Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and fearful. It would be just as silly to assert that disbelief in God is...
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.
Of course the Russians under Zhukov were
Money is a very pleasant thing, Willie, and I think you can trade almost anything for it wisely except the work you really want to do. If you sell out your time for a comfortable life, and give up you...
Willie experienced the strange sensations of the first days of a new captain: a shrinking of his personal identiy, and a stretching out of his nerve ends to all the spaces and machinery of the ship. H...