All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

There is a sharp distinction between what is remembered, what is told and what is true.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.

All choices are illusions, or if they are not illusions their strength is illusory, for one choice must contend with the choices of all the other men and women deciding anything in that moment.

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

In truth, women are the strong ones.

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?

If you know me, you know that nothing embarrasses me. Anything could happen to me on live television, and I sincerely don't care.

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.