War and sex are what I call the two abysmal - by that I mean deep - parts of the human condition.

The warrior must continue to make decisions in the face of extreme circumstances. He cannot afford to get angry or frightened.

The important thing in war is that there is an element of rage, but you must remain very distant from it.

The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent a thousand planes and, yes, we took out the factory sometimes, but we also took out the city. It reached the point where we wanted more efficient ways to destroy a city. The result was nuclear weapons.

In a way, we can have a much easier discussion about the future of technology than we can about why a young man kills another man in a war.

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany is desperate. It must maintain its standard of living. It can only do that with exports and Deutsche Bank is very exposed to Italian debt. But so is the rest of Europe.