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Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

War is like love; it always finds a way.

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

The word war itself has a kind of glazing abstraction to it that conjures up bombs and bullets and so on, whereas my goal is to try to, so much as I can, capture the heart and the stomach and the back of the throat of readers who can lie in bed at night and participate in a story.