Chuck

“All religious stuff aside,” Colbert cuts in. “The fact is people who can’t kill will be subject to those who can.”
― Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War

“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing—maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world.”
― Don DeLillo

“If we’d have fought these women instead of men,” another Marine comments, “we might have got our asses kicked.”
― Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War

“But no, we who putter out slowly with strength and courage won’t find our names engraved on any bronze plaque. They won’t chisel our names into any monumental slab of granite.”
― Christine Leunens, Caging Skies