George Grosz Quotes

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

If you are a real soldier, you never get over the war.

You know, those kinds of things in your life...movies you try to work out your issues, then you realize those kinds of traumatic issues just stay with you forever and they just keep reoccurring, and no matter how hard I try to get them out of my head, they just sort of stay there.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

When I first came back from Iraq, I of course found myself thinking a lot about it. Not just my experiences, but those of people I talked to, friends, and colleagues.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

War is too strange to process alone.

My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I, which includes the loss of life of some of his very, very close friends. I think he writes about that a lot in 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.'

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

Both sides think that they have a good chance of winning. That’s the recipe for a long war.