«Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way».

«He could have gone for General, but he went for himself instead».

«The war was being run by a bunch of four-star clowns who were going to end up giving the whole circus away».

«It was the way we had over here of living with ourselves. We'd cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a band-aid. It was a lie, and the more I saw of them, the more I hated lies. Those boys were never going to look at me the same way again. But I felt I knew one or two things about Kurtz that weren't in the dossier».

«He was close. He was real close. I could not see him yet but I could feel him. As of this boat was being sucked up river and the water was flowing back to the jungle. Whatever was going to happen, it was not going to be the way they called it in Nha Trang».