Quotes by : Tim O'Brien

He wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn so hot that you would feel exactly what he felt.

When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You could....

It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,....

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling....

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

At what point,” he asked, “does one decide on rafters and a rope? Answer: no points to be had. There....

He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring....

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis,....

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

A thing may happen and be a total lie another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.