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"'No sweat,' he said. 'The magic doesn't go away."' (112)

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"This one wakes me up" (O'Brien 79).

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"It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do." (24)

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"I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth" (171).

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"Twenty years ago I watched a man die on a trail near the village of My Khe. I did not kill him. But I was present, you see, my presence was guilt enough" (171).

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"He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so brave as he wanted to be" (147).

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"War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and outage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love" (76).

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"Naturally I wanted to do something about it, but it just wasn't possible. I had my reputation to think about. I had my pride" (221).

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"It comes down to gut instinct. A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe" (74).

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"Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in finite quantities, like an inheritance and by being frugal and stashing it away and letting it earn interest, we steadily increase our moral capital in preparation for that day when the account must be drawn down" (38).

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"At its core, perhaps, war is just another name for death, and yet any soldier will tell you, if he tells the truth, that proximity to death brings with it a corresponding proximity to life" (77).

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"I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war" (58).

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"On occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance" (31).

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"Even in my imagination, the shore was just twenty yards away, I couldn't make myself be brave. It had nothing to do with morality. Embarrassment, that's all it was" (57).

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"To listen to the story, especially as Rat Kiley told it, you'd never know that Curt Lemon was dead" (227).

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"For a long time I lay there all alone, listening to the battle, thinking I've been shot, I've been shot: all those Gene Autry movies I'd seen as a kid. In fact, I almost smiled, except then I started to think I might die" (180).

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"'Daddy, tell the truth," Kathleen can say, "did you ever kill anybody?" And I can say, honestly, "Of course not." Or I can say, honestly, "Yes"." (172