Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

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.

A spirtually illumined soul lives in the world, yet is never contaminated by it.

Pursue your dreams unceasingly until you achieve exactly what it is that you imagined.

The world is a wonderful place. What goes around comes around. Please help others to the best of your ability. In the long run you may be helping yourself only.

This is the future, ” Lycan said. “Connecting people to each other directly.

Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.

A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.