Phil Klay Time Quotations

The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It's only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I've been able to learn more about what I witnessed.

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.

War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.

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