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.

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].

[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 …

Word, when you give it power that’s what it holds”.

You're the prettiest when you're happy. Don't use all your energy being sad.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

No Victory Without Suffering

Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts.

The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of the Lord will endure forever.

I pride myself on being kind.

I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.