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....

Do we choose sleep? Hell no and bullshit - we fall. We give ourselves over to possibility, to whim and....

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's funny....

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

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,....

…he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a....

A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles,....

Whenever he told the story, Rat had a tendency to stop now and then, interrupting the flow, inserting....

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed....