Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

…all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and...

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the...

They used to call it the ‘Great War’. But I’ll be damned if I could tell you what was so ‘great’ about it. They also called it ‘the war to end all wars’…’cause they figured...

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

Mute in that golden silence hung with green,Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyesRemembrance of all beauty that has been,And stillness from the pools of Paradise.