“Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.”
“Vietnam...war...it did something to us. Or maybe not. Maybe the bad seeds were always in me, and war gave them a dark place in which to grow.”
“For every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.”
“The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There was a crime committed in that war the like of which perhaps was never committed in human history. You think about it.”
“Wars are won in the will.”
“No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”