Quotes by : Tim O'Brien

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

That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.....

Nostalgia-- that's the basic sickness, and I never heard of a doctor who can cure it.

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge....

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

Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of....

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

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

And in the end, really, there's nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh.

Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife,....