Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

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.

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

I don't want Daddy's passion to ever end. I want to help endangered wildlife just like he did.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.