In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.
Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.
A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.
Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.
Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.