I Find Nothing More Depressing Than Optimism.

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.

The Worst Thing About War Was The Sitting Around And Wondering What You Were Doing Morally.

Chickenshit Refers To Behavior That Makes Military Life Worse Than It Need Be: Petty Harassment Of The Weak By The Strong; Open Scrimmage For Power And Authority And Prestige; Sadism Thinly Disguised As Necessary Discipline; A Constant 'paying Off Of Old Scores'; And Insistence On The Letter Rather Than The Spirit Of Ordinances.

Travel At Its Truest Is Thus An Ironic Experience.

Understanding The Past Requires Pretending That You Don't Know The Present.