10 quotes
Nobody else in that platoon can tell a Hamiltonian from a hamburger.
Forever Peace (1997)
Like a lot of things that everybody knows, it wasn’t true.
Forever Peace (1997)
Maybe war is an inevitable product of human nature. Maybe to get rid of war, we have to become something other than human.
Forever Peace (1997)
Maybe after the war we’ll be civilized again. That’s the way it has always happened in the past.
Forever Peace (1997)
She smiled. “I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?”
“I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.”
Forever Peace (1997)
“You were a Jesuit?”
“Franciscan. We run a close second in being pains in the ass.”
Forever Peace (1997)
It was an ideological war for some—the defenders of democracy versus the rebel strong-arm charismatic leaders. Or the capitalist land-grabbers versus the protectors of the people, take your pick.
Forever Peace (1997)
We did it with their government’s foreknowledge and permission, of course—and there were no civilian casualties, equally of course. Once they’re dead they’re rebels.
Forever Peace (1997)
One thing most of us agree on is that the universe exists (people who deny that usually follow some trade other than science), so if some theoretical particle interaction would lead ultimately to the nonexistence of the universe, then you can save a lot of electricity by not trying to demonstrate it.
Forever Peace (1997)
In a physical way we’re closer than any civilian pair could be, since in full combat jack we are this one creature with twenty arms and legs, with ten brains, with five vaginas and five penises.
Some people call the feeling godlike, and I think there have been gods who were constructed along similar lines. The one I grew up with was an old white-bearded Caucasian gent without even one vagina.
Forever Peace (1997)