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.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Understanding 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.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

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