The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

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.

Don't be a patron of disbelief

I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

Your brain is the organ of your personality, character, and intelligence and is heavily involved in making you who you are.

He that hath lands hath quarrells.

I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything.

To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.