There is so much apathy... that I wish to be relieved from the Army of the Potomac.

Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.

[The Army Corps of Engineers and local officials scrambled to plug leaks.] We need to close the gaps and un-water the city, ... For areas above sea level, it will take a few weeks. ... Getting water below sea level is going to take longer.

We're overextended worldwide, ... We have too small an Army for the job that we're doing, yet we can't increase the size of the Army because it's volunteer and we can't enlist anybody.

We’re overextended worldwide, ... We have too small an Army for the job that we’re doing, yet we can’t increase the size of the Army because it’s volunteer, and we can’t enlist anybody.

I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.