Цитаты из книги Mourning Becomes Electra

Все победы в конечном счете завершаются поражением перед лицом смерти!

CHRISTINE--I feel so guilty! I've brought you nothing but misfortune!

BRANT--You've brought love--and the rest is only the price

It was seeing death all the time in this war got me to thinking these things. Death was so common, it didn't mean anything. That freed me to think of life. Queer, isn't it? Death made me think of life. Before that life had only made me think of death!

He gives the impression of being always on the offensive or defensive, always fighting life.