“Peace surfaced here. Hard to imagine a person finding peace through war, but no one finds peace in warpeace finds you. It crawls into your sleeping bag and helps you fall asleep, nudges your arm, t...”

“Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.”

“Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.”

“I wasn't writing home. I wasn't writing a death letter, either. I was writing a death journal, a piece of fiction meant for my family and my fiancee, Sara.”

“War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you cant feel it, you werent paying attention. And if you werent paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.”

“No matter what the reason, the ways I tried to justify the situation, the second-guessing that lingered, nothing could change the fact that people stopped existing because of me.”

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”

“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a sup...”

“More than the disappearing trees and roses, its the human tendency to suppress the Natural Voice of the Natures Man which is sorrowful.”