113 Quotes by Phil Klay

War is too strange to be processed alone,

It's not so much the question that offends me; it's that the people asking it don't seem to respect the moral seriousness of the question.

There are two ways to tell the story. Funny or sad. Guys like it funny, with lots of gore and a grin on your face when you get to the end. Girls like it sad, with a thousand-yard stare out to the distance as you gaze upon the horrors of war they can't quite see. Either way, it's the same story.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

War is too strange to process alone.