The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
It takes courage to speak your heart, when others do not want you to.
Even though we weren’t old, we were old with all we carried inside.
Listening to a sermonizer who above all loves to hear himself sermonize is about as much fun as having your toes sheared off.
Success or failure was always defined largely during the preparation. With good planning all one had to do was execute. Even last-second changes could be made with greater ease if the planning in the first place had been precise.
He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out.
It was blood. Blood that looked as if it had just been spilled. As I watched, it started pouring down the cavern’s walls.
Wait a minute; I thought the Battles didn’t pay the ransom.” “No, they did but they got it back – well, at least most of it.
You are a danger to her and all of Wormwood, Vega, do you not understand that?
A pretty accurate rule of thumb is the people who did the most talk about it the least. The blowhards are the ones who did squat.
It’s not so much that time heals all wounds, as it is the passage of the years that lets us make peace with our grief in our own way.
You have to give it thought when you’re changing your whole life.
The theory of mutual assured destruction was a great catalyst for peace.
Simply because you’ve lived through something doesn’t mean you understand its true significance or even recall the details of it correctly.
You should respect the past. You should never forget the past. But you can’t live there.
Humans are built for companionship.
It is more than a mere rule, for rules can be changed. It is truth.
The money folks will forgive a lot if the cash keeps rolling in. Same goes for the government.
All you need is some food, a roof over your head, a few brewskies a day, baseball in the summer and football in the fall, a missus to watch over you, and you can be a happy man.
Nobody likes to admit they were suckered. It’s easier on the psyche to keep living the lie.
It only matters, Devine, to you. But I would say this: Life is a long enough journey without having only negative motivations to get your ass out of bed every day. What I’m offering you is, once again, something.