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

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

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

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

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

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.