I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.

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.

Yes, frosting. The final defense of the dying.

If you do not write the thoughts of the moments, it is lost forever.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

Winning the golden boot is almost what's expected of me.

Just know He has His hands on You

I want to make smart choices.