No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.

I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.

Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.

Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.

War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.

I was enjoying the great human trophy hunt and, looking back, it scares the hell out of me

I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them.

Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.

I wanted people to know that we fired rounds into moving trucks and open windows to survive, not for anyone else’s freedom. Not for the Democrats. Not for Republicans. Just to survive.

Goodness is an open gate to a great life.

For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around.

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.

There are no roads in all Bohemia !

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.