All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.

How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten but they may start a winning game.

The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.

It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you.

Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.