I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.

A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.