I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us.
Tim O'Brien("I love you," someone says, and instantly we begin to wonder - "Well, how much?" - and when the answer comes - "With my whole heart" - we then wonder about the wholeness of a fickle heart.) Our lovers, our husbands, our wives, our fathers, our gods - they are all beyond us.
Tim O'Brien...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.
Tim O'Brien[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.
Tim O'Brien