He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.

Men are jerks. Women are psychotic.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Traveling is like dancing lessons from God.

there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.