Occupation: Historian Birth: March 22, 1924 Death: May 23, 2012
To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason..
There is no Apocalypse..
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 for….
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 ad….
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally..
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class..
"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impu….
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present..
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings to….
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon..
I find nothing more depressing than optimism..
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach..
Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience..
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 a….
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post f….
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel.
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time..
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment..
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically d….
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class..
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in th….