33 Quotes by James Carroll

I was surprised that they found her. We didn't know anything about her, just what she looked like. (That day) I heard all this noise and he (Merle Carroll) was lying on the ground. She sped off immediately. It was pretty crazy.

I found myself back to the Pentagon...as a protester?and my dad was still inside.

He's a great writer, but he's also the first writer-celebrity. His story as an expatriate and as an adventurer competes with his work.

We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for.

We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others - even when we cause it.

It has continued to drop in the Department of Interior budget, particularly fish and wild life.

Generally speaking, these terms (with foreign governments) have gotten much tougher in the last 20 years. In 1986, the price of oil was $10 to $20 a barrel.

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things....but, there are times when we must stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or in its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to smithereens, also barbaric. The main horror of what the coalition is doing is not a matter of the occasional soldier who, in the heat of battle, commits a war crime, but the steady destruction rained on cities, villages, the Iraqi people. This violence is wreaked calmly, from a distance, within the rules of engagement. The war itself is the American war crime.