Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

A circle is the longest distance to same point.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

My mind gets into a verbal mode.

I've lost all capacity for disbelief. I'm not sure that I could even rise to a little gentle scepticism.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.