Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story. It was a love story.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

A true war story is never moral.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

But in a story I can steal her soul.