"As a former soldier, what struck me is the absolutely heartless way that war was being pursued by the Americans, part…"

"I was very interested in the Great War, as it was called then, because it was the initial twentieth-century shock to …"

"I'm a pacifist about certain things. I'm a pacifist in the way I define national interest. I use this example frequen…"

"One of my favorite quotes is from Hemingway, who said, "Never persuade yourself that war, no matter how necessary, is…"

"[On war as ironic]: It's ironic because everybody believes that life is pleasurable, and they should. They have a rig…"

"After every war, there's an immense overhaul of language, which in the Western world has created really the cultural …"

"One thing one can't help noticing is the efficacy of religion before the nineteenth century at dealing with these pro…"

"Irony is a great help in helping to penetrate fraudulent language. In the Second War especially, the language became …"

""Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." … They have experienced secretly and priv…"

"Most Americans, in their sweet innocence, think that class has to do with money. But a glance at Donald Trump and Leo…"