Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

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 difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.

Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.

Don't make anybody Use you, be smart, else Dont curse them when they chew u out and throw you, they were smart not you

With great power... comes need to take a nap. Wake me up later

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids