There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

We didn’t believe in tomorrow. We we couldn’t forget what had happened yesterday.

When you live next to death ... you don't think about it anymore, you just try to encounter it as seldom as possible.

By 1989, the total number of Vietnam veterans who had died in violent accidents or by suicide after the war exceeded the total number of American soldiers who died during the war.

Once, back home, I decided to count how many days out of my twenty months in Afghanistan I’d been on combat missions. 217 days. And I’m still paying the price for every one of those days.

[On one of his comrades depicted in the book:]"Sasha was my friend … Like me, he was 19. But he didn't come home. He was killed 12 hours after this photo was taken.

Someone once said that a minesweeper makes only two mistakes: the first is when he decides to be one. The second …

Growing up I often wondered how the world would be today if, since the beginning of human life, every person acted as I did.

In addition to an open heart and open mind, I also brought (to the small group Bible study) an open mouth.

My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was caused by the subsidence of the island.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one.

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.