“I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.”

The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.

No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.

And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.

Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.

If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are

Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.

You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.

Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.

Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.

In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.

Certainly, we need government and legislation, but the governments really listen to people.

I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.

I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity.

The fiction I’ve written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession

Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.