92 Quotes by Joe Haldeman

This world was no place for anyone with access to another.

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

Hemingway was a jerk. I mean he was really a great jerk. He was a good writer, and he did all sorts of things that I would never have the courage to do, but I don't think I'd enjoy being in the same room with him. He's not my kind of person.

I suspect that war will become obsolete only when something worse supercedes it.

I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and then, or continued writing poetry. But it was the war experience and the two novels I wrote about Vietnam that really got me started as a professional writer.