“ ‘They were going to give me,’ he was almost laughing everywhere but in his eyes which continued to oppose all he said, ‘they were going to give me a discharge, a Section Eight discharge.’ “ (Knowles 144).

“ ‘ I always thought the war would come for me when it wanted me,’ he said when he came to say goodbye the last day. ‘I never thought I’d be going to it. Im really glad I saw that movie in time, you bet I am.’ “ (Knowles 126)

“ ‘...But they couldn’t use that trick forever, so for us in the forties they’ve cooked up this war fake.’ ... ‘The fat old men who don’t want us crowding them out of their jobs. They’ve made it all up. There isn’t any real food shortage, for instance. The men have all the besr steaks delivered to their clubs now. You’ve noticed they’ve been getting fatter lately,  haven’t you?’ “ (Knowles 115).

“ ‘We’ll jump together to cement our partnership,” he said. ‘We’ll form a suicide society, and the membership requirement is one jump out of this tree.’ “(Knowles 31).

“I went back to Devon School not long ago, and found it oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before. .... Perhaps the school wasnt as well kept up in those days; perhaps varish, along with everything else, had gone to war.” (Knowles 9).