Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.

Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those two things ever conflicted? Would we be the brave ones who still found the capacity for love - and for laughter - even while we were terrified?

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.