An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

I hope I get married one day.

One interesting thing I found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or a natural disaster, people begin relating in a more ancient, organic way. They're functioning in small interdependent groups and putting others first. And another irony is that even in terrible times, cooperating makes people feel good.

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.