The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.