Michael Herr Quotes
- 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…
- How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?
- 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,…
- Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
- We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the…
- Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.