You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.

for years now there had been no country here but the war.

if its gets rough, you need to get tough.

He had never imagined that a man in love could be so lonely.

People will always say all sorts of stuff. Let them. I'm enjoying my life

I have changed my Ministers but I have not changed my measures.Iamstill formoderation, and Iwill governby it.

You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore?

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest.

Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other.

If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.