To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

Self-Consciousness

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 4.