It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

Murder is only killing in the wrong place.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

Let us give thanks for our shadowsfor they are there in the first placebecause of the presence of light.

Until they rip us apart, and even then, I'll fight.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

If I feel good on the inside, I treat my body with more respect.

I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture.

Find one correct answer and let the rest disappear.

The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

In Europe, it's more common to hear aggressive dance tracks on the radio.