Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

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

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

So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.

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

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

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