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

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

A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

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

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

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

Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.