Bullets to Live By

In this effort, the literary classics will ultimately be firmer and more useful guides than any social science methodology for those who have not had a personal experience with war and death. - Robert Kaplan

True suffering is the only way to see, to have illuminated to you some essential truth about your life and the human condition. The hero is a unique individual who is set apart from others by suffering, but who at the end sees his or her life as part of a larger design. - Robert Kaplan

Only the independently wealthy have some of the freedom that, according to the self help industry, so many of us have. - Robert Kaplan