113 Quotes by Phil Klay

For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.

I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

I grew up a little north of New York City and went to high school at Regis, an all-boys tuition-free high school in Manhattan.

I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.

I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.

I like the ethos of the military and the idea of joining an institution in which, at the very least, everyone who signs up believes in something.