Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.

for years now there had been no country here but the war.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.

I travel, always arriving in the same place.

The best motivation is self-motivation. the guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on." What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life.

I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at..

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

You push the button, we do the rest.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

You might be a redneck if you're turned on by a woman who can field dress a deer.

When you go on stage and it's your show, you don't really have to work that hard to win that audience because you've already won them.