We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.