I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

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.

It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.

The sacred time defined the sacred-moment.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it

I think you are very selfless.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad.