Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

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

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.

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

I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.