Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

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.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Failures when are huge, dimish the small gasps of success, but these gasps are enough to bring the successful in you

But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window—

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.

The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps.