“It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.”
“It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
“To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.”
“It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century’s war dead.”
“It only took one imperfection. One. Then laughs would turn into screams [...]. People would turn into memories and memories into nightmares.”
“Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent.”