"I was born at a time when computers and video games were not widely used. I played in the street, a bit of football, and rode my bike. At home, I used a wooden strummolo, a sort of spinning top that I spun with a string and stopped with a bottle cap. When I was very young, my father took me to the beach and we had fun in the water or building sandcastles. When I got older, my grandfather taught me how to play cards. But I never managed to win a game of scopa or briscola with him. Grandfather was incredible. When we played hide and seek as children, one of us would inevitably get hurt and shout “stop the game”. And that was the end of it. I wish that today this “stop” could be used to stop the war."