Michael Herr Inspirational Quotes (8)

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

We came to fear something more complicated than death, an annihilation less final but more complete, and we got out. Becausewe all knew that if you stayed too long you became one of those poor bastards who had to have a war on all the time, and where was that?

Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America it took like Islam in the desert . . .

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony I went to cover the war and the war covered me an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.