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

Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances.

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

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

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

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

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