The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to ….

We are Craiglockhart's success stories. Look at us. We don't remember, we don't feel, we don't think - at least beyond the confines of what's needed ….

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars..

Murder is only killing in the wrong place..

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer..

Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, ….

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face..

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain..

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge..

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen.

Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was ….

Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics..

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance..

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the autho….

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks..

The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your….

The result was I went nowhere..