My father was in the First World War.

When there's a war, people get married.

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

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.