Top Highlights

• War is like any other bad relationship. Of course you want out, but at what price? And perhaps more importantly, once you get out, will you be any better off ?
• rip open the diseased heart of a corporation and what spills out?’ ‘People.’
• You probably don’t want to hear it, most soldiers don’t. When you put on that uniform, you’re saying in effect that you resign your right to make independent decisions about the universe and your relationship to it.’
• ‘Do you know,’ he murmured, ‘the great thing about wars like this?’ ‘Keeps the population from thinking too hard?’ A faint smile flitted across his face. ‘The potential for innovation,’ he said.
• The air was stiff with the uncomprehending silence that serves males as a function of grief.