Every Novel Begins With The Speculative Question,

I Think It's Going To Be Remembered As The Last Major War On Planet Earth, If We're Lucky, If We Maintain Our Foreign Policy Properly. It Will Be Remembered As The Last Time Major Countries Had To Put People In The Field And Put Them In Harm's Way. It May Be The Last Of All Human Nature Wars, Which Is A Nice Way To Remember Any Kind Of A War, As The Last One.

Being A Victim Is More Palatable Than Having To Recognize The Intrinsic Contradictions Of One's Own Governing Philosophy.

I Think It's An Intellectual Duty For A Person Who Lives In A Free Society To Read Material Not Only With Which You Agree, But With Which You Disagree. Because Every So Often Somebody You Think Is Wrong Will Actually Turn Out To Be Right.

Wars Are Begun By Frightened Men.

Even True Believers Had Consciences, Too Bad.