I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.

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.

Choose empathy over apathy.

I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Her [Sarah Palin] son went to Iraq under George W. Bush, but it gives us a chance to explain what post-traumatic stress disorder is.

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.