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

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.

And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

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

A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.