Erri De Luca quotes:

Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.

death that tears away clumps of us folks, stuffs thousands of the living, freshly plucked into its sack.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

The geometry of the things around us creates coincidences, intersections.

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.

I like people who can't die in their bed.