Bryan Kvet

“I came back to Rome, so I could send the book off and finish the sixteen drawings. I read the thing over before I took a bath, and darned if I didn't like it pretty well, even though it may be full of bad grammar. Now I've had the bath and the sixteen drawings are almost finished, and somehow I miss the aid station. It was pretty safe under the cliff, and it was warm and we were able to make coffee. It was full of homesick, tired men who were doing the job they were put there to do, and who had the guts and humanness to kid around and try to make life easier for the other guy.

They are big men and honest men, with the inner warmth that comes from the generosity and simplicity you learn up there. Until the doc can go back to his chrome office and gallstones and the dogface can go back to his farm and I can go back to my wife and son, that is the closest to home we can ever get.”
― Bill Mauldin, Up Front

“The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.”
― Richard K. Morgan, Thirteen

“Jane Seymour was Henry's ideal wife: she didn't argue, she gave birth to a boy and then she promptly died without his having to kill her.”
― David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

“The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produces no concept; therefore, it is dumb.”
― Umberto Eco