18 Quotes by Evan Wright

With everyone lounging around, eating sleeping, sunning, pooping, it looks like some weird combat version of an outdoor rock festival.

Get some! expresses in two simple words the excitement, fear, feelings of power and the erotic-tinged thrill that come from confronting the extreme physical and emotional challenges posed by death, which is, of course, what war is all about.

Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja.

In my civilian world at home in Los Angeles, half the people I know are on antidepressants or anti–panic attack drugs because they can’t handle the stress of a mean boss or a crowd at the 7-Eleven when buying a Slurpee.

Hey, it’s ten in the morning!′ says Person, yelling at two farmers dressed in robes in the distance. ‘Don’t you think you ought to change out of your pajamas?

She looks to be about three, the same age as his daughter at home in California... the girl’s eyes are open. She seems to be cowering... Graves reaches in to pick her up- thinking about what medical supplies he might need to treat her... when the top of her head slides off and her brains fall out.

ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

NAMBLA’s infiltrated First Recon,′ Person continues after bringing the vehicle to a stop. ‘There’s a guy in Third Platoon, hes going to be collecting photographs of all the children and sending them back to NAMBLA HQ. Back at Pendleton he volunteers at the daycare center. He goes around collecting all the turds from the five-year-olds and puts them into Copenhagen tins. Out there everyone thinks he’s dipping, but it’s not tobacco. It’s dookie from five-year-olds.

For the first time in history, drug addicts and drunks – once viewed as human wreckage that drained families and society of resources – had become valuable properties. People could make fortunes off them.