“Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.”
“Out of all human emotions, none is more primitive, and has a longer lasting effect on the body, than hatred.”
“This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it's nothing, nothing at all besides other wars - the last or the next.”
“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”
“Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long?”
“Life is so groovy when your record is hot.”