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After all, nothing was more American than wielding a gun and committing oneself to die for freedom and independence, unless it was wielding that gun to take away someone else’s freedom and independence.
I’m dying because this world I’m living in isn’t worth dying for! If something is worth dying for, then you’ve got a reason to live.
Wars never die, I said. They just go to sleep.
The Chinese might have invented gunpowder and the noodle, but the West had invented cleavage, with profound if underappreciated implications.
Marriage is slavery, I said. And when God made us human—if God exists—He didn’t intend for us to be slaves to each other.
No, because happiness, American style, is a zero-sum game, sir.
If the Orient has one inexhaustible resource, said the General, it is people.
