The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.

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.

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn’t even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.

You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasnt like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

Life is short. Do not forget about the most important things in our life, living for other people and doing good for them.

Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.