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.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.