There's room for all sorts of magic and miracles in this world - that's what I think.
Michael MorpurgoWars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
Michael MorpurgoI tell you, my friends,โ he said one day. โI tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. Itโs the others that are mad, but they donโt know it. They fight a war and they donโt know what for. Isnโt that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And itโs me they call mad!
Michael MorpurgoBut just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.
Michael MorpurgoOur great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all horrors of the adult world. They know very early on that the world is sometimes a very dark, difficult and complex place, and the literature they read must reflect that. Otherwise we're just entertaining them to pass the time.
Michael Morpurgo