Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.
All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.
How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.
We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that?
What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.
Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.
This is a good world. We need not approve of all the items in it, nor of all the individuals in it; but the world itself-which is more than its parts or individuals; which has a soul, a spirit, a fundamental relation to each of us deeper than all other relations-is a friendly world.
Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.