“What your profession might call trophies we marines call the spoils of war”
“Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
“what we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.”
“I believe that we all come to this world to kill time. Therefore, we pick up some activity that we like doing and call it our profession. I call this the time pass theory.”
“There comes a time when we can no longer tell the invaders from the invaded. That is what we call "War.”
“...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world'...”