“Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.”

“And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.”

“Give me life, with its struggles and victories, with its failures and hatreds, with its deep moral meaning and its unknown goal!”

“A country is only as strong as its military, and only as moral as the men who serve in its ranks.”

“It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation”

“One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.”