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Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

A man should not be cruel to things weaker than himself,

I don't know anything about wars. I don't think even the most erudite scholars do. I think you have to fight one, to know it.

Only low men, the lowest, tormented the weaker things in their control.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right ... but that I had gotten true.

One: Don't kill yourself.
Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody else, but if you have to, better if it ain't fam'ly.

On every pack leaned an M16, except Lori's. Her son was playing soldier with it in the bleachers. There was no clip in it, which was a good thing.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

West Virginia is among the nation's leaders in military service, in killed in action, in medals for valor.

If one piddles correctly, time just goes away, without regret on the part of the piddler, or even any particular notice.

That is where a big part of the Old South is, on coffee tables in Greenwich Village.

How do you not love a place where the faded beads from a parade six years before still hang in the branches of the live oak trees.

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.

Mama just stepped back on the treadmill of worry and hopeless, and kept walking.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

The unwritten rule of engagement had been If it looks hostile, shoot it.

The children start school now in August. They say it has to do with air-conditioning, but I know sadism when I see it.

Stripes on their backs. The twentieth century

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

Mature material. Where once he had hollered through

They, especially, taught me that you can't go through life not liking people because they didn't have to work as hard or come as far as you did.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

For maybe the first time in my life, I had tried to do the safe thing, and it had blown up in my face. Never, ever again.

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.