It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then you have to pay your money to the woman showing you the door. You see the dirt on the walls and your sorry image in the mirror.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

He lay before God as a woman opens herself to a man, with legs apart, stomach exposed, arms open. But unlike some women, he did not have the inner strength that allowed them to do such a thing without fear. There was no woman’s strength in Mellas at all.

Once we recognize our shadow's existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.