Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

Brave’ covers everything from complete insanity and bloody disregard of other people’s lives – generals tend to go in for that sort – to drunkenness, foolhardiness, and outright idiocy – to the sort of thing...

War is too important to be left to the generals

The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell’s ego could fit snugly in the basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome but in very few other public places. This runaway megalomania marked him as a...

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures...