Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

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.

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

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

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

Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

It was all absurd, without reason or meaning. People who didn't know each other were going to kill each other over a hill none of them cared about