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You don't often see fight scenes with people who have no idea how to fight.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Army life don't agree with me.

The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Fighting is not something you can just turn off.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.