Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.