The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

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.

The holy spirit is the sole instrument of my judgement and wisdom

Our mind is a crazy nightclub of cacophonous sound filled with strange images and one-night stands: our mind tells us lonely, loveless tales that leave us frightened but really have no lasting power

Diplomacy "was like a card game. The difference was that you never really knew the value of the cards in your own hand.

God is Truth. There is no incompatibility between science and religion. Both are seeking the same truth. Science shows that God exists.

You can't have problems with hand movement, if you're going to be a good putter.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

When you get so tired that you realize you cannot generate righteousness, come on back and I'll tell you about a gift.

To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.

Go out into the world and run straight at whatever you fear the most.