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We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

I don't think we should ever be at war. That's kind of naive, I suppose.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.

We know over very national survival is at stake; and we believe that we should support our troops, yes, and work for an outcome that results in victory.

There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.