To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

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

A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

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.

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.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.