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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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"To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation."

"I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning."

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"Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain."

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

"It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate picture. Then he is upside down. Then he is right side up. You shoot at a series of images conveyed to you through a metal tube. The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder."

"Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?"

"Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted."

"I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence."

"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be 'only human,' subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief."
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