Quotes by : Tim O'Brien

It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger....

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in....

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid....

I could feel my moral compass as a soldier, in danger of - I could feel the squeeze, the pressure of....

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along....

They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. Greased they'd say. Offed, lit up, zapped....

Courage is nothing to laugh at, not if it is proper courage and exercised by men who know what they do....

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach....