On a morning like this, fear is a blue sky emptied of birds.

I had become an arrow of sound aimed at the most terrible creature in the city.

I cannot believe that you're still a girl. Your kisses don’t seem that innocent. They are driving me crazy.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.

Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

And all we are waiting for is something worth waiting for.

It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.