But in a story I can steal her soul.

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.

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

You will breathe throughout your life, every moment of it, but an opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime, and not even to everyone. Go for it!

TimeTrap raised her head and looked pointedly at St. John. “It was a dimensional portal, silly. Duh.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

One can think effectively only when one is willing to endure suspense and to undergo the trouble of searching.

When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.

Lipstick is the red badge of courage.