But this too is true: stories can save us.

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.

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

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.

It was hell to be so tired, and still care.

He was a "how" thinker not an "if" thinker.

Think with your whole body.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves.

Bomb Disposal Is a face off with your own mortality. Don't let the fear get to you. When you give in to the fear, the Darkness Comes.

The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.