If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
Paul FussellTravelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.
Paul FussellUnderstanding 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.
Paul Fussell