Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

For I am a drop of water, I may change but I will never vanish in thin air.

You can be a person with a strong passion or holy anger and be furious in a way that will make the society safer, godly, with social justice and equity.

Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born.

I am needed here. Atlantis can burn in the nine hells for all I care. I have sacrificed enough to Poseidon. My days as high priest are done.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm right where I belong.

The traditional model we all grew up with is obsolete.

Keep your drunken electrons dancing!

I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had this freedom of body.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.