Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

Death had marked his family with unbreakable black halos, until only two remained.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.

I also think when it comes to delivering on Brexit, we need someone with a passion but also the mastery of the detail.

I love the road. That's always been my goal. I've said that to many record labels. I want to make records. The road is my favorite. Some people hate the road, I love the road.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? But when I am for myself, then what am "I"? And if not now, when?

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.

Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.