Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

Crazy got nothin on us" Neesa

It’s never too late to drop your beliefs and let your wounds heal. Instead of wounding others as well.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.

Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.

Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.

Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

It’s difficult to create fashion, you can’t just learn it, you have to have fashion in your DNA.

I am not a special person. I am a regular person who does special things.