If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.

And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it's good.

War is too strange to be processed alone.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

I've certainly thought a lot more about things like tyranny and patriotism and violence. I think I found some kind of clarity - definitely a thicker understanding.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.

Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

When it comes to work, there are many who will stop at nothing.

I feel more comfortable confidence-wise. You get to the NHL, and you're nervous about trying things. With experience, you're not as afraid of being creative.

When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!

I live on the Jellicoe Road. Where trees make canopies over-head and where you can sit at the top of them and see forever.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.