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
Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.
A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.
It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.