27 quotes
Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport— two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
What would be a road hazard anywhere else, in the Third World is probably the road.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts— the country has shortages of practically everything.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
They don't like anyone who isn't Korean, and they don't like each other all that much, either. They're hardheaded, hard-drinking, tough little bastards, "the Irish of Asia".
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
War will exist as long as there's a food chain.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Italy is not technically part of the Third World, but no one has told the Italians.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982 there was nothing to litter with.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners— two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
The Italians have had two thousand years to fix up the Forum and just look at the place.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.
Holidays in Hell (1989)
I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
Holidays in Hell (1989)