Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.

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

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.

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

A true war story is never moral.