I'm just as human as you. But it's no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.

In the interests of research I have walked on many battlefields that once were liquid with pulped men's bodies and spangled with exploded shells and splayed bo…

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography - but if you write you…

Despite the propaganda, there are no monsters, or none that can be finally buried. Finish one off, and circumstances and the radio create another. Believe me: …

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

How can there be peace on earth when there's war in love?

Headmaster: I have never understood this liking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.