The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.

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.

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

Life is spirit.Life ends when our spirit departs from the body.

Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

Face tomorrow tomorrow's not yesterday

I think Saturday may be Latin for "stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night.

That's the main thing you have to have... trust.

Music is a fundamental human right

The stage is home, and there's no place like it.

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.