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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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.

War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

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.

What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

War is in the eyes.