I was very interested in the Great War, as it was called then, because it was the initial twentieth-century shock to European culture. Humanities interview (1996)
War is about survival and it's about mass killing and it's about killing or being killed — that is, in the infantry — and it is extremely unpleasant. Humanities interview (1996)
As a former soldier, what struck me is the absolutely heartless way that war was being pursued by the Americans, partly I think because of the race problem. Humanities interview (1996)