Status Updates From Механическое пианино

It does seem like the machines took all the good jobs, where a man could be true to hisself and false to nobody else, and left all the silly ones.

And another nice thing about war—not that anything about war is nice, I guess—is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing.
See? Up there, fighting and all, you couldn't be righter. You could of been a heller at home and made a lot of people unhappy and all, and been a dumb, mean bastard, but you're king over there—-king to everybody, and especially to your-self.