“Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.” ThinkingMenMadeWarCharacterHandsSeemsPerfectFictionFateMessPlotVietnamSessionFuryTanksRottenSyntheticBriefingSmall Hands Author:Wilfrid Sheed
“It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.” IfsWholeSeemsCasesMissingObviousSymbolsArtificial Book:The good word and other words Source: The good word and other words
“As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place.” FirstsHumansSeemsApproachWorthyPresidency Book:The good word & other words Source: The good word & other words
“As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they would never dominate their wives.” HomeSeemsWifeOfficeMalesBossBattleground Book:The good word and other words Source: The good word and other words
