I always say three things make a writer: inspiration obviously perspiration doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
War is evil but it is often the lesser evil.
The essential act of war is destruction not necessarily of human lives but...
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was...
Look into the heavens and say, “It’s my turn to make history.
