Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.

If you don't take it, I'm going to throw it away," Alex cheerfully retorted. "I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

<...> though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it afterwards. Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991 - January 7, 1992. But this is not important. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.