[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

Foolishly romantic, yeah, sure, maybe: but she'd rather have dreams of Prince Charming than the reality of Mr. Wrong.

We are not the ones who will achieve success and put this world to shame, but God will do this

Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always make you less than you are.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.