News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

the mute protest in your own bones

And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.