Everything Is Barely Weeks. Everything Is Days.

War Is The Form Nostalgia Takes When Men Are Hard-pressed To Say Something Good About Their Country.

How Many Beginnings Before You See The Lies In Your Excitement?

He Took Pains To Avoid Self-depreciation, Self-mockery, Ambiguity, Irony, Subtlety, Vulnerability, A Civilized World-weariness And A Tragic Sense Of History--the Very Things, He Says, That Are Most Natural To Him.

I Am Ashamed Every Day, And More Ashamed The Next.

World Is Supposed To Mean Something That's Self-contained. But Nothing Is Self-contained.