And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

Let us help each other

A person who faces unique miseries learns much. All time transports him rich insights.

A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?

For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across

Grace? Are you tipsy? (Selena) Maybe just comfortably toasty. Pop tart toasty. (Grace)

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.