Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes.
Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.
He began to wonder with genuine concern just what sort of shithead the Pentagon had foisted on him.
Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.
I frequently feel I’m being taken advantage of merely because I’m asked to do the work I’m paid to do.
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
I can’t start writing until I have a closing line.
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.