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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war, the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.