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To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

In war, people find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, and in those circumstances, they act in extraordinary ways. In war, you see people at their very best and their very worst, acting in ways you could never imagine. War is human drama at its most epic and most intense.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.

I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.