Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes, ’ he starts, ‘the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing you were never meant to have them.

Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much hate?

If you can make her want you bad enough, she'll come after you.

Take the risk! You find the right road!

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.

We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

I've done so many independent movies I'm sure no one will ever see, but I've loved the work.

In a world full of people, only some want to fly. Isn't that crazy?