"Dr. Winter was a man so simple that only a profound man would know him as profound." (2)

"Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and he tried not to think what he knew—that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds." (23)

"In all the world yours is the only government and people with a record of defeat and defeat for centuries and every time because you did not understand people." (48)

"Don't you know you will have to kill all of us or we in time will kill all of you? You destroyed the law when you came in, and a new law took its place." (48)

"Alex, go, knowing that these men will have no rest, no...