I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post facto illumination.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.