"I remember how my father described him. He said, 'This young Captain I'm bringing home--he despises art. Can you imagine? Despises it--and yet he does it in such a way that I can't help loving him for it. What he's saying, I think, is that art has failed him, which, I must admit, is a very fair thing for a man who has bayoneted a fourteen-year-old boy in the line of duty to say.'" --Sylvia Rosewater

[Eliot] Rosewater said an interesting thing to Billy one time about a book that wasn't science fiction. He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky. "But that isn't enough anymore," said Rosewater. --Slaughter-House Five