Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

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.

I felt like I was a natural [in The Simpsons].

Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.

Second isthe first of the losers.

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

I certainly don't lose any sleep if I lose a tennis match.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Aren’t in love.

I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do.

Dedication is loyalty to a cause, even when hope has long expired for a successful outcome. It is an unstoppable determination to win regardless of the odds.