“I was the one who pulled the trigger of this war.”

“I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.”

“They say be careful who you believe,
Be careful who you trust.
Did you smile when you pulled the trigger
That dropped me in the dust?”

“And Kingsley being Kingsley, he smiled as he pretended to pull the trigger.”

“I aimed at his back and pulled the trigger five times and all hell broke loose in my mind.”

“Please forgive me," Pleasant said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger.”

“If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?”

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

“Distributed responsibility is the problem. One person gives the order, another carries it out. One can say they didn’t pull the trigger, the other that they were just doing what they were told, and everyone lets themselves off the hook.”

“Shelter me from the powder
And the finger
Cover me with the thought
That pulled the trigger
Think of me
As one you'd never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone.”