One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

If you want to break the rules of grammar, first learn the rules of grammar.

It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.

It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.

I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.

The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.