“Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.”

“Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”

“Women tend to act heroically within their own moral universe, regardless of whether anyone else knows about it - donating more kidneys to nonrelatives than men do, for example. Men, on the other ha...”

“They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.”

“Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.”

“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”