We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

It was hard not to be full of hope

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.