You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.