In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

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.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

One's first responsible job is the great revealer - far more than school.

I’m trying to do better than good enough.

It's funny, because when you work on a set, everyone is watching you. You are being observed by everyone.

It's very clear, under anyone's scenario, that it's a massive, extensive undertaking regardless of where you might ultimately draw the line as to when the nuisance is abated.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.

I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.