We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible.
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.
Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.
A true war story is never moral.
[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.