"Saturday night is the only time worth living for some people—a lot of people live just for Saturday night." (Chapter 11, Section I, p. 178)

"I do not have to fear God in order to love man." (Chapter 10, Section I, p. 173)

"When I went to war, I was three times as old as you, and now I am only twice as old . . . You will be me someday." (Chapter 1, Section I, p. 15)

"There must be a sense of honor or a man will have no dignity, and without the dignity a man is incomplete. I will always be a man." (Chapter 1, Section I, p. 15)

"The ever-increasing army of people swarmed across while the border remained open, fleeing from squalor and oppression." (Chapter 1, Section II, p. 16)

"The death of an immortal showed most clearly the unalterable fact that everyone must die, himself included." (Chapter 1, Section III, p. 26)

"He thought the...