You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I...
I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
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.