35 Quotes by Michael Herr

You can still see the shadow from when the Zeppelin floated over America; it took like Islam in the desert . . .

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war,

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?

Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you’ve never heard it.

Maybe nothing’s so unfunny as an omen read wrong.

It’s a corny old gag about Las Vegas, the temporal city if there ever was one, trying to camouflage the hours and retard the dawn, when everybody knows that if you’re feeling lucky you’re really feeling time in its rawest form, and if you’re not feeling lucky, they’ve got a clock at the bus station.