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

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

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

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.

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

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

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

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

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

Seek pleasure in work itself as in result you have no control.

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength, ' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

Your homecoming will be my homecoming

Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in First." I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.

As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.

Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.