When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.

Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.

Divine force lies within you. You must awake the power.

The man died inside cannot live outside. ‪

Like all beings, I will eventually add my energy and matter and light to the fabric of the universe, a single strand in its amazing tapestry.

He ran his hand up and down his left achilles tendon. Very tender

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.