My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel