Phil Klay

There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

I was studying with Peter Carey, Colum McCann; but also, my fellow students were really critical readers for me.

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.