Tim O'Brien Quote

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.

I remember my father, who had served in Vietnam, once talking to me about how real courage is when you're scared out of your mind but you do what you have to do anyway. I didn't feel very courageous a...

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.