A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he’s finished wit…

- Anthony Swofford

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

- Anthony Swofford

My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.

- Anthony Swofford

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.

- Anthony Swofford

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

- Anthony Swofford

Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in th…

- Anthony Swofford

It dosnt matter how many mr. and mrs. johnsons are anti war- the actuall killers who know how to use the weapons are not.

- Anthony Swofford

I think the combatant is always burdened with returning and making his way through his past. And that we as citizens have a responsibility to those g…

- Anthony Swofford

It occured to me that we will never be young again.

- Anthony Swofford