Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen
A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.
It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.