What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

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.

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

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

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.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.