If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

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.

Your greatness is directly proportional to how much time you are ready to invest into fulfilling your purpose.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

Nina was about to snap that she didn't appreciate the sarcasm when she saw the expression on his face. He looked like someone had just given him a tuba full of puppies.

Death means nothing to us

A collison is what happens when two motorists go after the same pedestrian.

[ Rabbi Shlomo ben Isaac] was the greatest commentator [of the Bible] we ever had.

You've got to be tough to win.

You won't go the hell for smoking, you'll just smell like you've been there.

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.