I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

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

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly but it is slowly learnt by heart.

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

It did not take long to conclude that, without God, would never come to understand where the universe began and where it ended, where it came from him, where he would go

The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.

Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.

I remember thinking, 'I don't know if I can do radio.' I never even listen to it.