You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Being a correspondent at the Vietnam war for me was about exposing myself to danger but it wasn't completely self-serving. I felt that there were these dark places of the earth, were dark things were happening and people should know about them. Call it my moral obligation to go and see them and report them.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

War, the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

In wartime, the degree of patriotism is directly proportional to distance from the front.