“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”
“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”
“In the last months of the war, when I raped in uniform – we were, by then, so full of death (and the destruction of everything we had and knew) that the act of love, even in travesty, felt like a spell against the riot of murder.”
“The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”
“Maybe there would be a little less fear in the world if we all had the courage to share our own. Maybe then we wouldn’t feel so alone.”
“Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?”