A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

War is a lot of things and it's useless to pretend that exciting isn't one of them. (pg. 144)

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.

All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving.

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

If you're not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?

I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

Get back on the bike and tell me where to go." "I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed.

Treat each class as if it were your first.